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HUAC
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
GI Bill
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. -
iron curtain
the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. -
Containment policy
It was a policy that used many strategies to stop the spread of communism. -
Baby boom
Baby boomers are the demographic group born during the post–World War II baby boom, approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. -
Mcarthyism
The practice of accusing someone of subversion or treason without the proper amount of evidence. -
Korean war
The cold war was great tension built up between the soviets and the us. The term cold is used because there was no real battle between the two super powers but a bunch of proxy wars with the two supporting a side. -
Truman Doctrine
It was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Cold war
a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. -
Levittown
It was the first suburbs -
Berlin airlift
the us and the weastern allies air lifted food and supplies into the blocked off part of berlin because the soviets blocked off the railway -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 -
Rock n Roll
It was a genre of popular music in the 1940s. It got its name in the 1950s and is also can be referred to as either popular music -
1950s Prosperity
The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s. ... Inflation, which had wreaked havoc on the economy immediately after World War II, was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's persistent efforts to balance the federal budget. -
Beatnik
a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation. -
Rosenburg trail
The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted of Committing Espionage. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was an American politician and Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
Ray Kroc
He was an American businessman. He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Doimino theory
Was a theory that if one country in a region fell under communism all would soon follow in a domino effect. -
Vietnam war
Another cold war proxy war with the soviets supporting the north and allies supporting the south. -
Jonas Salk
The first to find a vaccine for the polio virus. -
Federal highway act
Authorization to pay 25 billion for 41,000 miles of highway interstate. -
Space Race
20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US -
Sputnik 1
It was the first earth satalite developed by the soviets -
anti war movement
is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. -
LBJ
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. -
JFK
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
The Bay of pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile -
Betty Friedan
She was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is well known and credited -
Great Society
a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs. -
gulf of tonkin
authorized the president to do what ever to assist south east asias defense -
Tet Ofensive
North Vietnam launched and offensive despite the cease fire and lost militarily. -
vietnamization
Nixon chose to train vietnamese to fight the war in effort to reduce the amount of us troops lost. expand, equip and train -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974. -
Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969 -
26 amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
War powers resolution
The president can only send armed forces into action only under the declaration of war by congress. -
Rust belt Vs. Sun belt
The rust belt refers to the deindustrialization of the north eastern states and sun belt is the urbanization of the south from cali to florida. -
Marshall plan
It was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World
