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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) |