Presidents
President during the 50s and the man behind the Domino Theory.
Eisenhower
Difference between what the gov't was telling Americans vs. what they were seeing on TV
Credibility gap
Communist group in South Vietnam
Viet Cong
Leader of the farm workers movement; joined with Dolores Huerta and Filipino farmworkers to protest for better wages.
Cesar Chavez
Belief if one Southeast Asian country fell to communism then the others would also fall
Domino Theory
Congress granted him special powers with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; he did not run for re-election in 1968.
LBJ
Those who rejected societal norms (THINK: hippies)
Counterculture
Communist leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Prohibited wage discrimination based on gender
Equal Pay Act
Students across the country protested after Nixon sent ground troops to this neutral country along the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Cambodia
Created the President's Commission on the Status of Women two years before his assassination.
JFK
The difference in opinion of the war between generations
Generation gap
Nixon hoped bombing Cambodia and Laos would result in
Peace
Better education, the right to self govern, and more representation were goals of the...
Native American civil rights movement
A clash between the police and protestors in Chicago outside this event added to the chaos of 1968
Democratic National Convention
Won the 1968 election with a promise to end the Vietnam war with honor.
Nixon
Nixon's plan to hand fighting over to the South Vietnamese
Vietnamization
1968 attacks that turned public opinion against continuing the war
Tet Offensive
The name of the combined union of Mexican and Filipino farm workers
United Farm Workers
The draft was considered unfair because...(one reason)
Deferments benefitted the wealthy; minorities and the poor were mostly drafted
An anti-war candidate assassinated after winning the California primary
RFK
The treaty that divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel.
Geneva Accords
Gave Johnson the ability to use force against North Vietnam without declaring war
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Why wasn't the Equal Rights Amendment ratified?
A conservative movement successfully lobbied against ratification
Leaked documents showing the gov't was lying about the Vietnam War
Pentagon Papers