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Ray Kroc was an american business man and he purchased the rights from the McDonald brothers and spread the restaurant world wide.
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Nixon was the 37th president of the US,
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Jonas salk was an american medical researcher and virologist, he discovered and developed one of the first polio vaccine
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american writer, activist and feminist and was a leading figure in the women's movement
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anyone suspected of being a member of the communist party was persecuted and interrogated
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the G.I. Bill was created to help veterans of World War II. It established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans
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The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II
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Thought up by the US diplomat george kennan, it's the american policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
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First established in 1947 by president truman after britain could no longer afford to provide anti-communist aid to greece and turkey.
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American Initiative to aid western europe, in which the US gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help western europe restore buildings after WWII
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was a conflict between russia and the US because of satellites and allies
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The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II
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NATO stands for North Atlantic Free Trade Organization. This was an alliance formed between the North American countries, (Canada, USA, and Mexico) and some countries in Europe.
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Practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard of evidence
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Rock n' roll during the cold war was with lyrics about the war and things like that
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the economy rose up by 37% overall and so the US gain a lot of money
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the migration of hundreds of thousands of Americans from the Northern and Midwestern Rust Belt to the Southern Sun Belt.
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people that were born in the 1940s and around that age
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a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
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was a war between North Korea and South Korea, the US supported south korea because north korea wanted communism and the US didn't like Communism
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The Rosenburge Spy Case was about a husband and wife, Julius and Ethel accused of being soviet spies
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Eisenhower was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961
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the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
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The Vietnam war wa caused through the attempt to stop the spread of communism. It was the United States and help of the South Vietnamese against the Northern Vietnamese.
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law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation
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Sputnik was the first artificial earth satellite launched by the soviet union
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The Space Race was a competition between the Unites States and the Soviet Union over which country would get to space first
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The Bay of Pigs was JFK's failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro.
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This event was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union planted missiles in Cuba that if lanuched would land in the United States.
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John kennedy was the 35th president of the US and was assassinated in 1963
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anti war movement was a movement to do less war and do more drugs or at least just stop doing unnecessary wars
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Gulf of tolkin resolution was when president johnson decided to do anything to keep peace and order in southeast asia
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The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B Johnson
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This event caused the necessity for the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
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The United States led during the "Moon race" by landing Neil Armstrong
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Nixon wanted to encourage native Southern Vietnamese people tp fight in the war against Nothern Vietnamese and take mor responsibilty in their battle against communism.
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US citizens that are 18 years or older shall not be denied to the right to vote.
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Federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the US to an armed conflict without the consent of the US congress