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Unit 8--Part 3
APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Woodstock | music festival in 1969 that represented the counterculture |
| Fulgencio Batista | Cuban dictator supported by the US in the 1950s |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban dictator supported by Soviet Union after he led a revolution in 1959 |
| Bay of Pigs | failed 1961 invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles |
| Quarantine Speech (1962) | JFK's announcement given in response to the Soviet build-up of nuclear weapons on the island of Cuba |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 situation in which Soviets attempted to place nuclear missiles on Cuba |
| military-industrial complex | term created by Eisenhower that described weapons makers and military influence on US foreign policy |
| mutual assured destruction | term that referred to idea that a nuclear attack by one nation would result in the destruction of both nations |
| Ho Chi Minh | communist-nationalist leader of Vietnamese |
| domino theory | idea that if one country in southeast Asia was allowed to fall to communists, others would soon follow |
| Vietcong | Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | used by Lyndon Johnson to expand the war in Vietnam |
| Rolling Thunder | code name for saturation bombing of Vietnam by US Air Force |
| napalm | gelatinous material used to burn off canopy of trees in Vietnam |
| agent orange | defoliant used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971, to clear vegetation and expose enemy positions |
| My Lai massacre (1968) | murder of app. 350-400 South Vietnamese civilians by US forces; turned many Americans against the Vietnam War |
| Tet | massive 1968 offensive by Vietcong; resulted in public opinion in US turning against war |
| War Powers Act of 1973 | says President can only send troops for 90 days—after which he or she must get Congress to approve or declare war |
| Muhammed Ali | boxer who refused military draft because of racial inequities in US society and military |
| Kent State | famous college protest of Vietnam War; Ohio National Guard kills 4 student protesters on college campus |
| New Left | Young liberals who believed traditional Democrats weren't fighting racial and economic inequalities enough |
| Students for a Democratic Society | student group that believed in greater democracy, more civil rights, and more equitable distribution of wealth |
| Port Huron Statement | a manifesto (written views) adopted by SDS in 1962, outlining the organization's vision for a more just and participatory society |
| counterculture | Nickname for group that rebelled against social mainstream; most represented by "hippie" movement |
| 1975 | South Vietnam fell to communism and the Vietnam War ended |
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