Economics
An act to create a minimum wage by JFK.
Minimum Wage Act
This person assassinated JFK in Dallas.
Lee Harvey Oswald
A common view of what a happy family would look like.
Nuclear family
Where housing was cheap but very racist against minorities.
Levittown
A war that takes place right after World War 2 and lasts until 1989.
Cold War
A time right after the war that caused a huge economic boom and stability.
Postwar economy
This president's popularity decreased among the American public during the Vietnam War.
Lyndon Johnson
This Supreme Court case desegregated school, but with lots of resistance from white Americans.
Brown v. Board of Education
A culture who values differ from the norms and mainstream society.
Counterculture
An effort to rebuild war torn Europe and assist other developing nations to avoid Communism from spreading.
International Monetary Fund
A neoliberal economic policies promoted by the 40th president.
Reaganomics
A 13 day confrontation starting on October 16,1962 because of weapons.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Happened right after World War 2, and was meant to increase the population.
Baby boom
Movement for social change.
Civil rights movement
A drop in oil production caused a crisis where the oil shot up in price caused this crisis.
Economic Crisis
Created in 1964, meant to help Americans with poverty issues.
Office of Economic Oppuritunity
U.S. policy to contain Soviet Union and communism from spreading.
Containment
A very significant African-American that was one of the main reasons for rights for African-Americans.
Martin Luther King Jr
Gave federal funding to higher education to boost colleges and universities.
National Defense Education Act
An attempt by the US to help this country from going to communism, ended up losing.
Vietnam War
A program created in 1965 to give basic medical insurance to the elderly.
Medicare
An act in 1965 that helped African-Americans overcome a tremendous obstacle.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
A movement that centered in urban areas in order to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against American Indians.
American Indian Movement
A document signed by 101 members of Congress from southern states that argued the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was unconstitutional.
Southern Manifesto
A doctrine of military strategy that says that full nuclear war means the complete annihilation of the attacker and defender.
Mutual assured destruction