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Ho Chi Minh |
communist, North Vietnamese leader who began the war for independence against France and fought against the US and SV in the Vietnam War; eventually, in 1975, took control over SV
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Ngo Dinh Diem |
South Vietnamese democratic president after the Geneva Accords; lead a corrupt democracy and eventually was assassinated due to a order from JFK
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Vietminh |
the communist forces in the North led by Ho Chi Minh
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Vietcong |
communist forces in the South that uses guerrilla warfare to attack the US and SV forces
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
resolution after and due the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in which this gives LBJ broad powers to defend Vietnam at any cost
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Operation Rolling Thunder |
first strategy by the US that bombs the literal crap out of N Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh Trail |
trail through Cambodia and Laos from NV to SV that gives supplies to the Vietcong
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Napalm |
fire used to destroy villages, forests, and crops in Vietnam
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Agent Orange |
chemicals and herbicides used to destroy crops and plants; had an adverse effect of causing cancer in people |
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Living Room War |
war, specifically the Vietnam War, that was being broadcasted and showing the atrocities of the war to the general, American public
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My Lai Massacre |
massacre at the village of My Lai in which US troops kill an entire village in looking for supposed Vietcong
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General Westmoreland |
general that the public believed had a credibility gap due to his uber-optimistic lies that contradicted the living room war events and pictures
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Credibility Gap |
gap that the public believed General Westmoreland and the government in general had due to its contradiction with TV events and broadcasting
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TET Offensive |
offensive in 1968 by NV and Ho Chi Minh that was a large attack on SV towns and cities and makes us look like we are not winning the war; seen as the turning point in the war die to the breaking of US attitudes and giving anti-war movements a new growth
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Anti-War Movement |
movement that used protest to protest the draft of the lower part of society and minorities and the killing of civilians in Vietnam; made mostly of students and activists on college campuses
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Kent State Massacre |
massacre at Kent State University in Ohio in which students were shot upon as the Ohio governor sent the national guard and police; protests there were due to Nixon secretly sending US troops to Cambodia and order the bombing of Laos
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Vietnamization |
Nixon's plan to gradually withdraw US troops and replace them with South Vietnamese troops; created by Henry Kissinger of the NSC
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Treatment of Vietnam Vets |
treatment of the Vietnam vets was unpatriotic has they faced hostility from other citizens and many were unable to find employment due to their service |
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Election of 1960 |
election between Nixon and Kennedy in which JFK represented youth, hope, charisma, but inexperienced and Catholic while Nixon was seen as experienced and known for work in government; turning point was the TV debate as Kennedy destroyed Nixon
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JFK |
president that was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs; represented youth, hope, charisma, and a new beginning based on winning the Cold War, the space race, and helping society in general; was Catholic, inexperienced, and the youngest US president ever |
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Jacqueline Kennedy |
wife of JFK that helped captivate nation as she also created new standards for US women's fashion
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New Frontier |
JFK's vision for the US by filling cabinet and staff with "best and brightest" political minds and desiring to improve the lives of ALL Americans and waging a war on poverty
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First Strike Capability |
JFK's desire to be able to strike the USSR before they did to us rather than mutually assured destruction
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Peace Corps |
JFK's creation of humanitarian aid to help aid and improve US-relations with under-developed nations
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1969 Moon Landing |
the US lands on the moon for the first time in human history and officially winning the space race
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Berlin Wall |
wall built in response to JFK saying never to Khrushchev cutting off access to West Berlin; built to keep East Berliners from leaving; all around city with walls, electric fences, barbed wire, vehicle traps, and the death strip
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Fidel Castro |
communist leader and revolutionist of Cuba who tookover in Cuba; seized property and took aid from Khrushchchev
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Bay of Pigs Invasion |
invasion ordered by JFK to overthrow Castro; use CIA and trained Cubans to attack; failed as Castro expected the invasion and JFK called off air strikes; JFK go on TV and take full responsibility and apologize; afterwards, Khrushchev promise to defend Cuba from the US
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
after US spy planes reveal nuclear missile camps in Cuba, JFK order naval blockade of surrounding Cuban waters to keep further missiles from entering; Soviet ships, escorted by nuc-equipped submarines, approach the quarantine line; the ships tuen around last minute; USSR remove missiles from Cuba= US not invade Cuba and remove Turkey missiles; win for JFK but show how close to war
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JFK Assassination |
in Dallas, on Nov. 22, 1963, JFK is shot by alleged lone shooter Lee Harvey Oswald; LBJ sworn in on Air Force One and Oswald killed later on by Jack Ruby
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Warren Report |
report 10 months later after investigation that stated that Oswald was the lone gunman
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
president after JFK who took rest of his term and his own term after defeating Barry Goldwater; use Kennedy martyrdom to get Civil Rights Act and war on poverty; enact program Great Society with civil rights, medical, environmental, and other social programs; do not run for second term due to opposition and Vietnam War
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War on Poverty |
war carried out by JFK and LBJ to combat and demolish poverty
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Great Society |
social programs by LBJ that include civil rights, medical and environmental programs
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1968 |
one of, if not the, most tumultuous years in American history as the election, MLK's assassiantion, RK's assassination, Vietnam War, TET offensive, My Lai Massacre, the most troops in Vietnam ever, huge student protests, and counter-culture is on fire
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MLK Jr Asssassination |
in a Memphis, TN hotel which marked a turning point in the CRM by moving from nonviolent to more extreme, violent, and active in that sense, a move towards Black Power radicalism, and riots in 100s of cities in the aftermath
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Black Power |
the movement to be proud to be black and celebrate, honoring, and embracing black culture; "Black is beautiful"; black nationalism and creating jobs
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Black Panthers |
militant group founded by Stokely Carmichael to enforce and use black power |
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Robert Kennedy Assassiantion |
assassinated when they ran for president after LBJ declined the party nomination; lead to divide in Democratic Party and lead to massive, violent protests at the Chicago Democratic Convention
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Democratic Party Split- Nixon Elected |
due to Robert Kennedy's assassination; Nixon take full advantage of split
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1960s Youth Revolt |
the youth of America especially on college campuses protest and become politically active especially in the Vietnam War and drafting
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New Left |
the political change in the Democratic Party in which participatory democracy is promoted while also demanding more freedoms on college campuses; Students for Democratic Society to fight poverty and racism; strongest area is at the University of California-Berkeley
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Counter Culture |
countering the 50s conformity by living in own society based on love and peace leading to flower power and hippie fashion; based on sex, drugs, and rock n' roll |
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Hippies |
a group in counter culture who again, based on sex, drugs, and rock n roll; center of hippie universe in San Francisco; live in hippie communes and self-sustaining communities
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Sex in 60s |
casual sexual behavior
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Drugs in 60s |
drugs become exceptable especially marijuana and LSD; Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Moon dies from overdose
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Rock n roll in 60s |
filled with folk music, R&B, electric rock, and acid rock including artists such as Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, and the Beatles; the Woodstock concert in 1969 show the high point
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Woodstock |
concert in 1969 featuring popular rock n' roll, counter culture artists
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Haight-Ashbury |
district in San Francisco that is the center of the hippie universe
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Communes |
self-sustaining communities like the Hog Farm and Drop City; very much a communist lifestyle
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Silent Majority |
the majority, mainly in rural America, that helped Nixon win the election
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Red Power |
power movement by Native Americans due to their race being the race with the lowest average income, high unemployment, and shortest life expectancy; begin to demand tribal autonomy and the return of lands taken by broken treaties; group of Native Americans seize Alcatraz and 200 armed N'A take control of Wounded Knee
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Brown Power |
power movement by Mexican Americans looking to improve the lives of Chicanos
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Cesar Chavez |
leader of the brown movement who organized the United Farm Workers and help gain better pay, union recognition, and better working conditions for farm laborers
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Pink Power |
power movement by women that challenged the social norms for women and seeked to destroy unequal pay and sexual discrimination; began with Betty Freidan writing the Feminine Mystique and also her co-founding the National Organization of Women; demand the Equal Rights Amendment to ban sexism; pass Title VII and IX and gain abortion rights
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Feminine Mystique |
book by Betty Freidan that describes going against the social norms for women
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NOW |
National Organization of Women co-founded by Betty Freidan that advocates for women
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Roe v Wade |
court case that legalized abortion rights in 1973
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Title VII |
title that protects women from sexual harrassment |
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Title IX |
title that outlaw sexual discrimination in education programs
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Green Power |
power movement that demands for environmental protection and activism; began after Rachel Carson's publishing of Silent Spring that exposed pesticides in 1962; Clean Air and Water laws alongside the EPA and the Endangered Species Act were all created; Earth Day created in 1970 on the date of April 22
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EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency that protects the environment in the US
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Endangered Species Act |
act that protects certain species of plant, fungi, and animal life from endangerment and extinction |
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Rainbow Power |
Gay liberation movement that began in 1969 after the police raid Stonewall Inn; desire an end to discrimination of homosexuals; "gay pride" and encouragement to come out
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GLF |
Gay Liberation Front that desires to end discrimination against homosexuals |
