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1960's and Vietnam
Mrs. Brown's 1960's and Vietnam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President from 1963-1968. Took over the presidency when JFK was assassinated. | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| LBJ’s programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, and Job Corps developed to fight the war on poverty. | Great Society |
| Court case that made abortion legal | Roe v. Wade |
| Sessions of lectures and discussions on the topic of war that were organized by faculty members of a college or university as a medium of social protest. | Teach-Ins |
| President from 1968 - 1974. Elected on the promise that he would pull the U.S. out of the War with “Peace with Honor.” | Richard Nixon |
| Men working for Nixon’s re-election campaign got caught in the Democratic headquarters making Nixon look like a crook. | Watergate |
| Young people during the 1960’s who opposed war, had casual sex, and experimented with drugs, wore tie-dye, had long hair. | Hippies |
| This began when the Soviets launched Sputnik. Both the U.S. and Soviet Union wanted to put a man on the moon. | Space Race |
| These men were the first to walk on the moon in 1969. | Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin |
| President Kennedy's legislative program, which included proposals to provide medical care for the elderly, to aid education, and to expand the space program. | New Frontier |
| Strategic bombing campaign where U.S. military aircrafts attacked targets throughout North Vietnam. | Operation Rolling Thunder |
| A huge 3 day music festival put on in 1969 in New York, 400,000 people attended. | Woodstock |
| The boundary line between North and South Korea. | 38th Parallel |
| If one country falls to Communism, all the others around it would fall too. | The Domino Theory |
| The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. America’s 1st space program. Established during the Space Race. | NASA |
| Result of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Congress gave Johnson full power to stop North Vietnam aggression any way necessary. | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| The US and North Vietnam signed an agreement that US troops would leave and let the South fight for themselves. | Vietnamization |
| Most intense confrontation between the US and Soviet Union during the Cold War. Soviets put nuclear missiles in Cuba, Kennedy blockaded and threatened to invade if not removed. | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| This was the first man the United States put into orbit around the earth. | John Glenn |
| Fought between 1950 - 1953, Communist North Korea invaded the US backed South. | Korean War |
| A district in San Francisco that was the center for the counterculture hippies. | Haight-Ashbury |
| Wanted to use the Atomic bomb on China to free them from communist control, talked bad about Truman and was fired. | Douglas MacArthur |
| Artist during the 1960’s who created Pop Art. | Andy Warhol |
| An unspecified large majority of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly, Nixon appealed to them for support. | Silent Majority |
| President between 1960-1963, assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. | John F. Kennedy |
| U.S. troops brutally murdered innocent Vietnamese villagers including women and children, which shocked Americans when it was finally revealed to the public. | My Lai Massacre |
| This was the 1st election ever broadcast on Television, showing that people in America think looks are important - Nixon v. Kennedy. | The Election of 1960 |
| What hippies called the government. | The Establishment |
| Communist leader who took power in Cuba. | Fidel Castro |
| A failed invasion of Cuba, JFK sent exiled Cubans to overthrow Castro - embarrassment to the US. | The Bay of Pigs |
| Created under Kennedy to send volunteers into poor countries to help them create programs and hopefully keep them from turning to Communism. | Peace Corps |
| People living together as a group and sharing everything. | Communes |
| a leaf-killing toxic chemical that devastated the landscape of Vietnam and caused birth defects for many years. | Agent Orange |
| An important year in U.S. history, moon landing, Nixon elected, and Woodstock. | 1969 |
| North Vietnam attacked the U.S. navy in neutral waters, was the closest the US came to declaring war on North Vietnam. | Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
| Top secret government file about the Vietnam War that was leaked and printed in the paper showing that the government had not been honest with people. | Pentagon Papers |
| In response to giving Johnson too much power in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, requires a president to inform Congress within 48 hours if US forces are sent into a hostile area without a declaration of war. | War Powers Act |
| Pro-war Americans who strongly felt the Vietnam war should be escalated. | Hawks |
| The capital of South Vietnam, captured by the North, marked the end of the war, unified Vietnam. | Fall of Saigon |
| National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of college students protesting the Vietnam War, killing 4 students - Greatly decreased support for the war. | Kent State Massacre |
| Mexican American who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courage in the Vietnam War. | Roy Benavides |
| Americans lost faith in the government's reliability because what was being said and what they saw on the news was 2 different things. | Credibility Gap |
| The Communist leader of North Vietnam, wanted to unify Vietnam. | Ho Chi Minh |
| 1954 - 1973: Communist North Vietnam invaded U.S. backed South, divided America. | Vietnam War |
| a massive attack by the Vietcong on over 100 South Vietnamese towns and cities as well as 12 U.S. air bases during Vietnamese New Year celebrations. | TET Offensive |
| One of the student protest groups operating on college campuses who demonstrated against the war. | Students for a Democratic Society |
| Many students and young people opposed to the Vietnam war held protests, teach-ins, and publicly burned their draft cards. | Anti-war Protests |
| Americans who strongly opposed the war and believed that the United States should withdraw from Vietnam. | Doves |
| Divided north and south Vietnam. | 17th Parallel |
| Students wore armbands in support of peace, they were suspended, Supreme Court ruled that students have the right to free speech as long as it doesn't disrupt the learning environment. | Tinker v. Des Moines |
| Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. | 26th Amendment |
| Jellied gasoline that burns at 3000 degrees dropped from U.S. planes to expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts. | Napalm |
| a pro-Communist South Vietnamese opposition group that carried out thousands of assassinations of South Vietnamese government officials. | Vietcong |
| Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving Vietnamization | "Peace with Honor" |
| Vietnamese anti-Communist who declared himself the ruler of South Vietnam and canceled elections that were supposed to unify Vietnam, US backed him in the beginning | Ngo Dinh Diem |
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