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The increase in the birth rate between 1946 and 1964; the generation born in the U.S. during that period.
What is the baby boom?
A theory adopted in U.S. foreign policy after World War II according to which the "fall" of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighboring states.
What is the Domino Theory?
An ambitious series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs spearheaded by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality, and improving the environment.
What is the Great Society?
Fortified concrete and wire barriers separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
An international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
What is the United Nations?
A system where all property is public and people work and are given things by the government according to their needs.
What is Communism?
Occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting U.S. society and the federal government.
What is the Second Red Scare?
An agency of the United States federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This term was most frequently used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War.
What is the credibility gap?
Stated that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
What is the Truman Doctorine?
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 attending college or trade schools.
What is the G.I. Bill?
A major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Sought to reduce the cost of doing business, by reducing tax burdens, relaxing regulations and price controls, and cutting domestic spending programs.
What is Reaganomics or Supply-Side Economics?
Slow economic growth occurring simultaneously with high rates of inflation.
What is stagflation?
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.
What are anti-war protests?
A U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979.
What is Detente?
A major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 and led to Nixon's resignation.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
Conflict between Iraq and a coalition of countries led by the United States to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait which they had invaded in hopes of controlling their oil supply. A very one sided war with the United States' coalition emerging victorious.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
A resolution of Congress that stated the President can only send troops into action abroad by authorization of Congress or if America is already under attack or serious threat.
What is the War Powers Act?
A 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
What is the Space Race?
Authorized President Lyndon Johnson to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression" by the communist government of North Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Effectively ended racial segregation in U.S. public schools, expanded the constitutional rights of defendants, ensured equal representation in state legislatures, outlawed state-sponsored prayer in public schools, and paved the way for the legalization of abortion.
States that a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
An international crisis (1979-81) in which militants in Iran seized 66 American citizens at the U.S. embassy in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?