New Frontiers and Familiar Enemies

By BNJ2442
  • Federal Housing Authority

    Federal Housing Authority
    This is a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934.
  • Postdam Agreement

    Postdam Agreement
    This is plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany and the entire European Theatre of War territory.
  • OPEC

    OPEC
    Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq, with the signing of an agreement in September 1960 by five countries namely Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait,
  • Chicano Movement

    Chicano Movement
    This is was extension of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement which began in the 1940s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.
  • Escalation

    Escalation
    was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 this was due to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam. This war just conintued to escalate as the years went by.
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action
    This refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon B. Johnson
    ften 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.
  • Abby Hoffman

    Abby Hoffman
    He was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party.
  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin
    This 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.
  • Roy Benavidez

    Roy Benavidez
    He was a member of the Studies and Observations Group of the United States Army.
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    Ths was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam against South Vietnam
  • Draft

    Draft
    On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950.
  • Tinker vs Des Moines

    Tinker vs Des Moines
    This was a ruling that the 1st Amendment applies to public schools to regard to regulating speechin the classroom.
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization
    This was a policy of the Richard M. Nixon administration during the Vietnam War, as a result of the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role.
  • Anit-War Movement

    Anit-War Movement
    s a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.
  • War Powers

    War Powers
    This is sometimes referred to as the War Powers Clause, vests in the Congress the power to declare war, in the following wording:
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment
    This was passed because 18 year olds were being drafted into war, they could not vote.
  • Richard Nxon

    Richard Nxon
    He was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the office.
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    This time was 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.
  • Vietnam

    Vietnam
    This country is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
  • Great Society

    Great Society
    medicare, head start, upward bound
  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory
    This is was a theory during the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the government of the United States,
  • Title IX

    Title IX
    This is s a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, Public Law No. 92‑318, 86 Stat. 235
  • NAFTA

    NAFTA
    This is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994