Lesson 47-48(Kennedy and The Great Society)
The two Cuban mishaps involved the U.S during Kennedy's presidency, one involving a U.S invasion and the other being a missile discovery.
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who were the founding members of counterculture, who rejected common governent, the "establishment", and the unusualities of the world.
What are hippies?
A herbicide used by the U.S to destroy plants and vegetation, often dubbed with a nickname.
What is Agent Orange?
Nixon's sneaky strategy to exit the war that involved a shift in responsibiloty from the U.S to South Vietnam.
What was Vietnamization?
The scandal that took place at the Watergate hotel, and led Richard Nixon to resign in 1974.
What was the Watergate scandal?
The treaty that was made by Kennedy and Khrushchev that banned nuclear tests outdoors.
What was the Test Ban Treaty?
The agreement that ended the Indochina war, and split Vietnam into northern communist and republican southern territories, as well as establishing a demilitarized zone in between both parts.
What were the Geneva Accords?
The two armies/organizations that opposed the protection of South Vietnam under the U.S and ARVN.
Who were the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army?
The event in 1968 where U.S soldiers intruded on a South Vietnam village, and murdered, raped, and brutally tortured hundreds of civilians including woman and children.
What was the My Lai Massacre?
A type of partying that emerged in the "Me" decade.
What is disco?
Lyndon B. Johnson's metaphorical war and the acts that he passed the helped to win the war.
Was was the war on poverty, along with Job Corps, Project Head Start, and VISTA?
The name of the movement formed by politically active college students that rejected common reforms and looked for new things in life.
What was the New Left?
The gap of trust that grew between the U.S people and President Johnson during the war in Vietnam.
What was the Credibility Gap?
The act passed by Congress that primarily limits the President's military privileges. It was made in response to Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia.
What was the War Powers Resolution?
The crisis that threatened Nixon's goals of helping the economy
The act passed in 1965 that made entry to the united states based on logical quotas like skills and family.
What was the Immigration Act of 1965?
The militia of North Vietnam that fought to defend North Vietnam and overthrow/exterminate the Republic of South Vietnam.
Who were the Viet Cong?
A military tactic that involves wearing the enemy down little by little.
What is the War of Attrition?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The papers that revealed deceitful presidents, released in 1971.
What were the Pentagon Papers?
The peace resolution proposed by Jimmy Carter between Israel and Egypt, which ended war between the two countries.
What were the Camp David Accords?
Kennedy's objectives focused on reviving the economy, winning the space race, building the nation’s defenses called (Hint: its two words)
What was the New Frontier?
The resolution passed by Congress that gave Johnson an immense amount of military power, which ensued air strikes, as the U.S believed the allegation that North Vietnam had destroyed U.S ships off the coast of North Vietnam.
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This 1968 surprise attack by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces during a major holiday shocked Americans and shifted public opinion against the war. It also undermined Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency.
What was the Tet Offensive?
After North Vietnam took control of South Vietnam in 1975, these refugees were fleeing Indochina by boat.
What were boat people?
The equality desired and somewhat achieved by many in the 1970's.
What is gender equality?