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Federal Housing Authority
AUnited 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. -
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Vietnam
The First Indochina War eventually led to the expulsion of the French in 1954, leaving Vietnam divided politically into two states, North and South Vietnam. Conflict between the two sides intensified, with heavy foreign intervention, during the Vietnam War, which ended with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975. -
Great Society
Set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson, to help Americans with houseing retirment and other benefits they might need.. some people abuse them. -
OPEC
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 -
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. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
the 36th President of the United States .He was responsible for designing the "Great Society" legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his "War on Poverty." -
Gulf of Tonkin
President Lyndon B. Johnsonerroneously claimed that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin -
Head Start
Aprogram 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. -
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 by the Viet Cong and North Vietnam against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies -
Abbie Hoffman
Was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party. 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 -
Vietnamization
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
Adecision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools. -
26th Amendment
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 Power 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 -
Richard Nixon
the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. escalated America's involvement in the Vietnam War, ended U.S. involvement in 1973 -
Roy Benavidez
He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat, on May 2, 1968. -
Fall of Saigon
The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front -
The Domino Theory
The United States government peculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow -
NAFTA
An agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America -
Postdam Agreement
the Allied (UK, US, USSR) plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany -
Anti-War Movement
Opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War began slowly and in small numbers in 1964 on various college campuses in the United States and grew into very large demonstration from 1967 until 1971 -
Affirmative Action
equal opportunity employment measures that Federal contractors and subcontractors are legally required to adopt.These measures are intended to prevent discrimination against employees or applicants for employment, on the basis of "color, religion, sex, or national origin"
