Junior History Final
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- Cuban Missle Crisis
- brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any time since WWII
- Generation Gap
- The cultural seperation between children and their parents
- Alan Freed
- A downtown cleveland Ohio radio disk jockey, won permission to play African American rythym and blues records on air
- Peace Corps
- an orgination that sent young Americans to perform humanitarian services in poverty countries
- Alger Hiss and Whittacker Chambers
- A State dpt double agent for the Russians: Convicted in the 1950's for purgery
- Little Richard
- An African American rock-n-roll singer and recorded hit songs in the 50's
- Povery Line
- A figure the government set to reflect the minimum income required to support a family
- Franklin D Roosevelt
- Democratic President 1932-1945 President during the depression
- The New Frontier
- Made by JFK with hopes to increase aid to education, provide health insurance to the elderly, created department of Urban Affairs and helped migrate workers
- John F. Kennedy
- Democratic President from 1961-1963, got assassinated in Texas, The New Frontier
- GI Bill
- The servicemans readjustmant act provided generous loans to veterans to help them establish businesses,buy home, and attend college
- Bay of Pigs
- On April 17, 1961, 1,400 armed Cuban exiles landed hereon the South Coast of Cuba
- NATO
- Included 12 countries that agreed to come to the aid of any member who was attacked
- Medicaid
- 1965 funded by federal and state governments, provided health and medical assistance to low-income families
- NASA
- Congress created to coordinate research and rocket science and space exploration
- Harry Truman
- Democratic President 1945-1952 Served for the end of WW2 and thru Koren War; made the decsicion to drop the bomb
- Sputnik
- The first artificial satellite to orbit the earth
- Marshall Plan
- Would give European nations american aid to rebuild their economies
- Urban renewal
- Programs that tried to eliminate poverty by tearing down slums and erecting now high rise buildings for poor residents
- Lyndon johnson
- Democratic President from 1963-1968, The Great Society
- Jonas Salk
- Developed an injectable vaccine that prevented Polio
- Great Society
- was Johnson's vision of the more perfect and equitable society the U.S. could and should become
- Head Start
- 1965 funded a preschool program for the disadvantaged
- Selective Service Act
- A plan for the first peace time draft in American History
- Baby Boom
- From 1945-1961 more than 65 million children were born in the U.S.
- D-Day
- The invasion of Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944
- CIA
- Central Integellance Acency created by the national security act of 1948
- Cold War
- An era of confrontation and competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1946-1990
- Red Scare
- The fear that communists were infiltrating our Government in the 1950's
- United Nations
- 39 Nations that were formed in April of 1950 which consisted of a general assembly and security council
- Fair Deal
- Trumans domestic program for improving america
- Joseph McCarthy
- Tried to find communists in the U.S. Did many hearings to convict the ones accused
- Brown vs. Board of Education
- Segregation in public schools unconstitional
- Medicare
- 1965 est. a comprehensive health insurance program for all elderly people; financed through the Social Security system
- Douglas McArthur
- Trumam fired during Korean War for insubordination
- HUAC
- Formed in 1938 to investigate both communist and fascist activitities in the U.S.
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Republican President 1952-1960 At the end of the Korean War and the boom of the 1950's
- Manhattan Project
- The American Program to build an atomic bomb
- Engel vs. Vitale
- State-Mandated prayer in schools banned
- Housing and Urban Development Act
- 1965 est. new housing subsidy programs and made federal loans and public housing grants easier to obtain
- Korean War
- Began June 25, 1950 and Ended July 27, 1953 to disarm the Japenese troops that were present
- Elvis Presley
- In 1956 teenagers found him as the first rock-n-roll hero and eventually became known as the king of rock-n-roll
- Ethel and Julius Rosenburg
- Gave the Soviet Union important information on a top secret atomic bomb being built in the U.S.
- Federal Highway Act
- It appropriated 25 billion dollars for a ten year effort to construct more than 40 thousand miles of interstate highways
- Jack Kerouac
- He published the book "On the Road" in 1957
- Franchise
- In which a person owns and runs one or several stores of a chain operation
- Containment
- Keeping communism within its present territories through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions
- Satellite Nation
- The communist countries of Eastern Europe
- James Dean
- A film star in "Rebel without a Cause" which made him an icon for American youths in the mid 50's, died at 24 in a car accident
- Ed Sullivan
- Had a show called Toast of the Town it provided a mix of comedy, opera, popular songs, dance, acrobatics, and juggling