Terms
Vietnam Terms
Kennedy
Johnson
Vietnam
100
This was a direct communications link set up during Kennedy's presidency
Hot Line
100
This temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel
Geneva Accords
100
Kennedy appointed this person as attorney general
Robert Kennedy
100
These provided free or low cost health care to Americans over age 65 and welfare recipients
Medicare and Medicaid
100
United States' main goal in Vietnam
Containment
200
This involved an invasion of Cuba
Bay of Pigs
200
This granted the US President broad military powers in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
200
This separated East and West Germany
Berlin Wall
200
Provided federal aid to help schools purchase textbooks and new library materials
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
200
Commander of US troops in Vietnam
William Westmoreland
300
This barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere
Limited Test Ban Treaty
300
This was the first extensive bombing of Vietnam
Operation Rolling Thunder
300
Closest we have ever come to a nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
300
Legislative program that summed up President Johnson's vision for America
Great Society
300
The way a young man could automatically be deferred from the draft in early Vietnam years
Enrolling in College
400
This created Job Corps, VISTA, and Head Start
Economic Opportunity Act
400
This was based on the idea that if one country fell to communism, all surrounding countries would fall to communism
Domino Theory
400
He squared off against Kennedy during the Berlin crisis
Nikitia Khrushchev
400
Supreme Court noted for its activism in the areas of civil rights and free speech
Warren Court
400
Who did the ARVN fight against
North Vietnam
500
This term refers to the way in which states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people in them
Reapportionment
500
This allowed Communists in North Vietnam to supply military arms to the Vietcong in the South
Ho Chi Minh Trail
500
Policy focused on preparing for a variety of military responses rather than focusing on nuclear weapons
Flexible Response
500
Act that ended quotas based on nationality
Immigration Act of 1965
500
This would bring about 'peace with honor' in Vietnam
Vietnamization
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