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  • Anti-War Movement

    Anti-War Movement
    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.
  • Federal Housing Authority

    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.
  • Potsdam Agreement

    Potsdam Agreement
    Its plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany—referring to the German Reich with its pre-war borders including the former eastern territories—and the entire European Theatre of War territory. It also included Germany's demilitarisation, reparations and the prosecution of war criminals.
  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act
    Strengthened the executive branch powers towards executing World War II. This act allowed the acquisition, under condemnation if necessary, of land for military or naval purposes.
  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory
    It was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War to justify the need for American intervention around the world.
  • Vietnam

    Vietnam
    It 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

    Great Society
    Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched during this period.
  • OPEC

    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
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action
    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
  • NTFTA

    NTFTA
    It gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of "conventional'' military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty". This included involving armed forces.
  • Head Start

    Head Start
    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.
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies
  • Escalation

    Escalation
    he process of increasing or rising, derived from the concept of an escalator.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon B. Johnson
    He was the 36th president, He also served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President. He 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. The involvement stimulated a large angry antiwar movement based especially on university campuses in the
  • Tinker vs. Des Moines

    Tinker vs. Des Moines
    Decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools.
  • Chicano Movement

    Chicano Movement
    A movement by Chicano activists that organized anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and activities throughout the Southwest and other Mexican American communities
  • Abby Hoffman

    Abby Hoffman
    During the Vietnam War, he was an anti-war activist, using deliberately comical and theatrical tactics
  • Draft

    Draft
    compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization
    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
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment
    setting a voting age higher than eighteen. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell.
  • 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 event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a communist state.
  • Richard Nixon

    He was the 37th president. Nixon initially escalated America's involvement in the Vietnam War, he subsequently ended U.S. involvement in 1973.
  • Roy Benavidez

    In 1965 he was sent to South Vietnam as an advisor to an ARVN infantry regiment. He stepped on a land mine during a patrol and was evacuated to the United States.
  • Title IX

    Title IX
    setting a voting age higher than eighteen. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell.