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Federal Housing Authority
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. -
Potsdam Agreement
Was the Allied plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany. -
Draft
Selective Service and the registration requirement for America's young men have served as a backup system to provide manpower to the U.S. Armed Forces. -
Domino Theory
The speculaton that if one nation fell to communism , then otheres would also fall. -
Chicano Movement
Mexican- American barrios throughout the southwest as artists began using the walss of city bulidings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict and celebrate Mexican- American culture. -
Affirmative Action
A policy enacted to right the wrongs of the discrimination of the past by increasing representation in employment and education for minorities and women. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President Meanwhile, Johnson escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War, from 16,000 American advisors/soldiers in 1963 to 550,000 combat troops in early 1968, as American casualties soared and the peace process bogged down -
Great Society
Has been scrutinized for possessing programs that could lead to lack of motivation to find enduring work. -
Anti-War Movement
Televistion coverage of the Vietnam War grave momentum to this. -
Escalation
resulted in some immediate success for the struggle in the South. iberated zone had been established from the Central Highlands to the edge of the Mekong Delta, giving the communists control over more than half the total land area and about half the population of the South. -
Gulf of Tonkin
Increased presidential powers for war options. -
Tet Offensive
When the South Vietnamese National Liberation Force simultaneously attacked a numberof targets, many with a high concentration od U.S. troops. -
Abby Hoffman
Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention -
Tinker v. Des Moines
Ruling that stated freedom of speech and free expression were rights protected for students in U.S. public school. -
Richard Nixon
37th President Although Nixon initially escalated America's involvement in the Vietnam War, he subsequently ended U.S. involvement in 1973. -
Vietnamization
An attempt to empower and equip thr South Vietnamese Army. -
Head Start
a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services -
26th Amendment
Passed that 18 year olds could vote. Becasue they were being drafted to war so they should be allowed to vote. -
Title IX
Made it illegal to deny participatical in activities funded with federal funds on the basis of gender. -
OPEC
In responce to their support for Israel the places embargoes on US oil shipments. -
War Powers Act
Disagreed upon by the U.S. Presdients since 1973 due to the fact they feel it is unconstitutional and restricts the presidential power to send troops into combat. -
Fall of Saigon
When the last helicopter left. Communist forces took control of the city, and many evacuated by sea eventually becoming known as "Boat People" -
Vietnam
Is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia -
Roy Benavidez
He was a solider from Texas, he won the congressional medal of honor and saved the lives of fellow soliders during the Vietman war. -
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement
an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.