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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Silent Generation | Proceeding the Baby Boom including those born from 1925-1945 |
| Generation X | The Generation following the Baby Boom |
| Generation Y | Aka: Millenials |
| Generation Z | Aka;New silent Generation. Babies born in 2001 on |
| "Mike" | Codename for the first successful implement of the concept for superbomb |
| New York Society for the Suppression of Vice | Anthony Comstock |
| Anthony Comstock | Self labeled "God's Garden" |
| Playboy | Original title: Stag Party |
| Ho Chi Minh | Revolutionary Communist leader who arrived back in Vietnam 30 yrs after exile |
| Viet Minh | Was expected to expel France and Japan |
| Domino Theory | If one country falls to communism, others would soon follow |
| Geneva Accords | A cease fire between North and South Vietnam |
| NGO Dinh Diem | Leader of South Vietnam. Was so horrible was executed in 1963 |
| Viet Cong | National Liberation Front (NLF)Used guerilla warfare |
| Gulf of Tonkin incident | Fired upon 2 U.S. ships in international waters August 2 and 4, 1964 |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Gave the President authority to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam |
| Sputnik | Russian for "Traveling companion" |
| International Geophysical year | July 1, 1957 to Dec 31, 1958 |
| Vanguard | The forefront of an action or movement. |
| Yuri A Gagarin | First human to orbit the earth |
| Naval Research Laboratory Vanguard | Proposal chosen to represent the U.S during the IGY |
| Tskgan | Russian for "Gypsy" one of two dogs sent into space |
| Gordo | Ship launched cape canerval florida holding a navy-trained squirrel monkey |
| Dezin | Monkey |
| Nasa | National Aeronautics and space administration |
| Laika | The other dog in a ship called Sputnik 2 |
| John H Glenn | Orbited the earth 3 times in a nearly 5 hour flight |
| The Eagle | Apollo 11. First shuttle to land on the moon |
| Neil Armstrong | First man to walk on the Moon |
| Skylab | Launched in 1973 occupied by astronauts and scientists who conducted astronomical experiments and spacewalks. Plunged to earth in 1979 |
| Space X | First private company to successfully fly a spaceship to the international space station. |
| Grasshopper | Vertical take off vertical landing (VTVL) |
| Mariana Trench | Deepest known part of the ocean |
| Exoplanet | Planet outside the solar system |
| Driverless cars | Allowed by France, California, and Nevada |
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