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Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the office. -
Federal Housing Authority
A government agency whose primary purpose is to insure residential mortgage loans, as well as to improve housing conditions. -
Roy Benavidez
Master Sergeant Raul Perez Benavidez was a member of the Studies and Observations Group of the United States Army. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968 -
Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party -
Domino Theory
A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. -
Vietnam
The easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. -
OPEC
is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Its mission is to secure a return to oil investors and an economic supply of oil to consumers -
Affirmative Action
policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin, into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business -
Anti-war movement
a campaign against entering or continuing a war -
Great Society
the goal of the Democratic party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty. -
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin incident is the name given to two separate confrontations, one actual and one false, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin -
Chicano Movement
Mexican-American community engaged in a period of widespread political activism akin to other civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s -
Tet Offensive
A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year, or Tet. The Tet offensive, a turning point in the war, damaged the hopes of United States officials that the combined forces of the United States and South Vietnam could win. -
Vietnamization
a US government policy of transferring the tasks of fighting and directing the war to the government and forces of South Vietnam -
Tinker v Des Moines
students have the right to their !st amendment at school -
Draft
The process or method of selecting one or more individuals from a group, as for a service or duty. Selective Service and the registration requirement for America's young men have served as a backup system to provide manpower to the U.S. Armed Forces. -
26th Amendment
he United States Constitution bars the states and the federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War -
Title IX
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance -
War Powers Act
Law passed by the U.S. Congress over the veto of Pres. Richard Nixon. The act restrained the president's ability to commit U.S. forces overseas by requiring the executive branch to consult with and report to Congress before involving U.S. forces in foreign hostilities. Widely considered a measure for preventing “future Vietnams,” it was nonetheless resisted or ignored by subsequent presidents, most of whom regarded it as an unconstitutional usurpation of their executive authority. -
Fall of Saigon
the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a communist state. -
Head Start
a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families -
Escalation
an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy; "higher wages caused an escalation of prices"; "there was a gradual escalation of hostilities -
Potsdam Agreement
a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended -
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement. A 1994 agreement reached by the United States, Canada, and Mexico that instituted a schedule for the phasing out of tariffs and eliminated a variety of fees and other hindrances to encourage free trade between the three North American countries.
