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New Frontiers, Familiar enemies

  • Federal Housing Authority

    Federal Housing Authority
    The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934.
  • Potsdam Agreement

    Potsdam Agreement
    The Potsdam Agreement was the Allied (UK, US, USSR) plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany.
  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory
    The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries.
  • Abbie Hoffman

    Abbie Hoffman
    Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party.
  • Escalation

    Escalation
    an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy.
  • Draft

    Draft
    A preliminary version of a piece of writing, when men would get draft into war.
  • Chicano Movement

    Chicano Movement
    The Chicano Movement of the 1960s is an extension of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement which began in the 1940s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action
    An action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, esp. in relation to employment or education.
  • Anti-War Movement

    Anti-War Movement
    a campaign against entering or continuing a war.
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization
    The US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
  • OPEC

    OPEC
    Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    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.
  • Gulf of Tonkin

    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. On August 2, 1964
  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Tinker v. Des Moines
    1965, John Tinker, his sister Mary Beth, and a friend were sent home from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. The school had established a policy permitting students to wear several political symbols, but had excluded the wearing of armbands protesting the Vietnam War. Their fathers sued, but the District Court ruled that the school had not violated the Constitution. The Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court, and the Tinkers appealed to the Supreme Court.
  • Great Society

    Great Society
    Was a set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Head Start

    Head Start
    Head Start is a US child development program designed for low-income families
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    An offensive launched in January–February 1968 by the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese army. Timed to coincide with the first day of the Tet (Vietnamese New Year), it was a surprise attack on South Vietnamese cities, notably Saigon. Although repulsed after initial successes, the attack shook US confidence and hastened the withdrawal of its forces.
  • Roy Benavidez

    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 South Vietnam on May 2, 1968.
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the office.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment
    set the voting age at 18, because of drafting.
  • Title IX

    Title IX
    Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a United States law enacted on June 23, 1972
  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act
    The War Powers Resolution of 1973 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

    Fall of Saigon
    The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the North Vietnamese Army 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 under communist rule.
  • Vietnam

    Vietnam
    A country in Southeast Asia
  • NAFTA

    NAFTA
    North American Free Trade Agreement.