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Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. He was the only president to resign in office. -
Federal Housing Authority
a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. -
Vietnam
The Potsdam Agreement was the Allied plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Nazi Germany and the entire European Theatre of War territory. -
Domino Theory
A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. -
Gulf of Tonkin
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. -
Tet offensive
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War, 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. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, he became the president after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States. -
Fall of Saigon
The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front. -
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. -
Abby Hoffman
Abby Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party. -
NAFTA
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 It superseded the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada.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
Master Sergeant Raul Perez Benavidez was a member of the Studies and Observations Group of the United States Army. -
Vietnamization
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. program of turning over to the South Vietnamese government responsibility for waging the conflict, in order to implement withdrawal of U.S. military personnel. -
Draft
The draft is an insurance policy that ensures that we will have a ready number of troops available in the event of war. -
26th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged -
Anti-War Movement
An anti-war movement 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. -
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. -
Affirmative Action
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" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business". -
Title IX
Title IX says that 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 -
OPEC
OPEC is intergovernmental and was created at the Baghdad Conference on 10–14 September 1960, by Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Then it was joined by nine more governments: Libya, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, Angola, and Gabon. OPEC had a headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland and moved it to Vienna, Austria, on 1 September 1965 -
War Powers Act
a federal law intended to check the President's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress -
Tinker v. Des Moines
Petitioners, three public school pupils in Des Moines, Iowa, were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Government's policy in Vietnam. They sought nominal damages and an injunction against a regulation that the respondents had promulgated banning the wearing of armbands. The District Court dismissed the complaint on the ground that the regulation was within the Board's power, despite the absence of any finding of substantial interference -
Chicano Movement
an extension of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement which began in the 1940s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.
