New Frontiers, Familiar Enimies

Federal Housing Authority

Mar 19, 1934

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.

Postdam Agreement

Mar 18, 1937

plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany—referring to the German Reich with its pre-war 1937 borders including the former eastern territories—and the entire European Theatre of War territory.

Domino Theory

Mar 18, 1950

existed between the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the United States government, which speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

Anti-War Movement

Mar 18, 1960

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.

Great Society

Mar 18, 1960

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.

Chicano Mural Movement

Mar 21, 1960

began in 1960 Mexican-America barrios throughut the Southwest as artists began using the walls of city building, housing project, schools, and churches to depict and celebrate Mexican-American culture.

Abby Hoffman

Mar 1, 1963

was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party.

Gulf of Tonkin

Mar 19, 1964

increased presidential powers for war options.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Mar 1, 1965

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

Affirmative Action

Mar 18, 1965

was a policy enacted to right the wrongs of the discrimination of the past by increasing representation in employment and education for minorities and women.

Head Start

Mar 19, 1965

a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It launched in 1965.

Roy Benavidez

Mar 1, 1968

Master Sergeant Raul Perez Benavidez was a member of the Studies and Observations Group of the United States Army.

Tet Offensive

Mar 18, 1968

U.S. troops had been in Vietnam for three years before the Tet Offensive, and most of the fighting they had encountered were small skirmishes involving guerilla tactics.

Escalaction

Mar 18, 1968

is the process of increasing or rising, derived from the concept of an escalator.

Ruchard Nixon

Mar 1, 1969

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.

Vietnamization

Mar 18, 1969

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, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops."

Tinker v. Des Moines

Mar 20, 1969

ruling stated that freedom of speech anf free and expression were rights protected for students in U.S. public schools

26th Amendment

Mar 18, 1971

to the United States Constitution bars the states and the federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen.

Title IX

Mar 18, 1972

makes it illegal to deny participation in activities funded with federal funds on the basis of gender.

OPEC

Mar 19, 1973

In responce to their for Israel in 1973, OPEC placed embargoes on US oil shipments.

War Powers Act

Mar 19, 1973

has been disagreed upon by U.S. presidents since 1973 due to the act they feel it is unconsitutional and restricts the presidential power to spend troops into combat.

Fall of Siagon

Mar 18, 1975

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

Mar 1, 1976

is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.3 million inhabitants as of 2012, it is the world's 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country.

Draft

Mar 18, 1988

groundswell of support to compel a candidate to run for office

NAFTA

Mar 19, 1994

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.