Johnson
Name of Johnson's legislative plan
What is the Great Society?
Toxic herbicide used to destroy foliage and North Vietnamese crops
What is Agent Orange?
The scandal over the power of the presidency and obstruction of justice that led to the resignation of Nixon
What is Watergate?
Another name for supply-side economics
Trickle down economics
nickname for the famous Carter speech that many Americans felt blamed them for the country's problems
What is the 'malaise' speech?
Populations that the Great Society was aimed towards
What is the poor, the elderly, children, and minorities?
Leader of the North Vietnamese
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Nixon's new policy towards the Soviet Union that means an 'easing of tensions'
What is détente?
Reagans famous inaugural quote on the role of government
What is "government is the problem"?
Crisis in the Middle east that seriously harmed Carter's re-election bid
Resolution that gave Johnson new powers and room to increase U.S. involvement in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?
Eisenhower theory that argued that intervening in Vietnam was the key to protecting all of Southeast Asia from communism
What is the domino theory?
Nixon policy in which the U.S. slowly withdrew troops from Vietnam
What is Vietnamization?
Government action following theory of supply-side economics
What is reduce taxes for businesses and corporations?
Carter believed that America was too dependent on foreign imports of this important product
What is oil?