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Federal Housing Authority
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 -
Domino Theory
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 -
Vietnam
military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries -
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 -
Chicano Movement
The Chicano mural movement began in the 1960s in Mexican-American barrios throughout the Southwest. Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture. -
Abby Hoffman
was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s, and continued practicing his activism in the 1970s, and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion of that era -
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
known as positive discrimination in the United Kingdom, refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin -
Lyndon B. Johnson
was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), -
Gulf of Tonkin
erroneously claimed that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.Known today as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, this event spawned the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution -
Head Start
is 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
describes the escalation of a conflict to a more destructive, confrontational, painful, or otherwise "less comfortable" level; in particular, it is concerned with how persons or forces can be controlled or subdued in conflict -
Anti-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 -
Tet Offensive
It was a campaign of surprise attacks that were launched against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam, during a period when no attacks were supposed to take place -
Roy 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. -
Tinker v. Des Moines
was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools -
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. -
Vietnamization
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. -
Draft
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. "The draft" occurred during a period of conscription, controlled by the President, from just before World War II to 1973. -
26th Amendment
to the United States Constitution bars the states and the federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen -
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
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 end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a communist state. -
Potsdam Agreement
was the Allied (UK, US, USSR) plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany -
NAFTA
is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America
