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SS Vocab Quiz
| Segregate | separate by race |
| Integrate | bring races together |
| Civil Disobedience | peaceful, non-violent protest |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Poverty Line | the minimum income needed to live |
| Medicaid | provides health and medical assistance to low income families |
| Medicare | Health Insurance program for elderly people financed through the Social Security System |
| Sit-ins | the act of protesting by sitting down and not moving |
| Feminist | An activist for women's rights |
| Latino | Hispanic Population |
| NOW | National Organization for Women, to fight for equal rights for women |
| Executive Order | presidential directive |
| Flexible response | to provide necessary help to nations fighting communism |
| Space Race | continuing rivalry between the Soviets and the US about space exploration |
| Escalate | to gradually increase |
| Search-and-destroy mission | to seek out Vietcong or Vietnamese units and destroy them |
| Napalm | an explosive that burned very intensely used to destroy jungle growth. Agent Orange |
| Viet Cong | National Liberation Front (NLF), communist |
| Counterculture | A movement that rejected traditional American values |
| Credibility Gap | When few people believed the Johnson administrations statements about the war |
| Vietnamization | plan for South Vietnamese to take more of a role in fighting and for Americans to become less involved. |
| Martial Law | emergency military rule |
| MIA | Soldiers who were Missing In Action (MIA) |