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Federal Housing authority
-is a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. It insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying. The goals of this organization are to improve housing standards and conditions, provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to stabilize the mortgage market.The Commissioner of the FHA is Carol Galante.1934 -
Postdam agreement
Postdam was the allied(UK,US,USSR) plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany Reich with its prewar 1937. -
draft
was when people were told to into the military -
Anti War movement
An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is 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 -
Chicano Movement
The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, also known as El Movimiento, is an extension of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement which began in the 1940s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment. -
Domino theory
1950s-1980s is when that by the United states government, which speclated that if one ste of region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow. -
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Vietnam War
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Great Society
the Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University and subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice -
Affirmative Action
known as positive discrimination in the United Kingdom, refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin"[1] into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business" -
Opec
s 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.created at the baghadad conference on 10-14 september 1960, by Iraq,Kuwait, iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, then it joined 9 more gonverments Libya, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, Angola, and Gabon -
Lyndon B. Johnson
-(August 27, 1908- January 22,1973) LBJ escalated U.S involvement during the Vietnam war, from 16000, American advisors/soldiers in 1963 to 550000combat troops in early 1968. -
Gulf of Tonkin
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. Its where on august 2,1964 -
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. The program's services and resources are designed to foster stable family relationships, enhance children’s physical and emotional well-being, and establish an environment to develop strong cognitive skills. Launched in 1965 -
vietnamization
was a policy of the Richard M. Nixon administration during the Vietnam war, as a result of the fviet congs tet offensive to “expand,equip, and train south vitnam’s forces and assign to them an ever –increasing combat role at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops”. -
Tet offensive
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 , the US,and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks that were launched against military and civilian commandand control centers through out south Vietnam, during a period when no attacks were supposed to take place. -
escalation
is the process of increasing or rising;conflict esclation -
Tinker v. Des Moines
-inker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969) was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools. The Tinker test is still used by courts today to determine whether a school's disciplinary actions violate students' First Amendment rights. -
26th amendment
to the 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 and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell. It was adopted on July 1, 1971 -
Title IX
is a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, Public Law No. 92‑318, 86 Stat. 235 (June 23, 1972), codified at 20 U.S.C. sections 1681 through 1688, U.S. legislation also identified its principal author's name as the Patsy Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act -
Richard Nixon
born and died (january 9,1913-April 22,1994) in 1973he ended U.S involvement in the Vietnam war. -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. 1541-1548)[1] is a federal law intended to check the President's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress -
Fall of Saigon
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. 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. -
NAFTA
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. It superseded the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. -
Roy Benavidez
born and died(August 5, 1935-November 29, 1998) during the Vietnam war Benavidez took lead to the Ronda view point when he noticed most of his comrades were either dead or wounded and for that he got the medal of honor. -
Abby Hoffman
November 30, 1936- april 12, 1989)
