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President Kennedy created this volunteer organization to provide social and economic development abroad
What is the Peace Corps?
This was the president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F Kennedy?
Jellied gasoline that explodes on contact, used to firebomb North Vietnam and Vietcong forces
What is naplam?
Nickname for President Johnson's plan to progress civil rights and invest domestically into America, lost much funding due to the Vietnam War
What is the Great Society?
Nickname President Nixon created for the plan to slowly withdrawal troops from Vietnam
What is Vietnamization?
Author of the Feminine Mystique
Who is Betty Friedan?
Communist leader of Cuba during Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Fidel Castro?
Chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs
What is Agent Orange?
The multi-billion dollar aid program to Latin American nations to promote democracy abroad.
What is "Alliance for Progress"?
Fear that a Communist Vietnam would lead to other countries of Southeast Asia falling to Communism
What is Domino Theory?
Leader of North Vietnam, city of Saigon renamed after him following the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow the communist regime
What is Bay of Pigs?
These resolutions led to allowing the president to send forces to Vietnam without an official declaration of war.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions
These "papers" exposed the Credibility Gap between the American government and people, released by the Washington Post and revealed that the government knew we were losing the Vietnam War
What are the pentagon papers?
This surprise attack occurred on the Vietnamese lunar new year celebration, convinced American's we were losing the Vietnam War
What is the Tet Offensive?
Communist leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
President Kennedy's decision led to this naval action against Cuba
Blockade or Quarantine
Name for government provided medical care for elderly citizens
What is Medicare?
The nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War showed dying soldiers, while the government misled the American people to thinking we were winning the war.
What is the credibility gap?
An event where an American battalion opened fire and slaughtered an entire Vietnamese village
What is My Lai Massacre?
Catholic leader of South Vietnam who persecuted and discriminated against Buddhists
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
In exchange for removing missiles from Cuba, the United States agreed to remove missiles from this country
What is Turkey?
This is where many members of the counterculture headed for in San Francisco. Intersection of two streets
What is Haight Ashbury?
This act passed after the Vietnam War required the president to declare war if deploying soldiers for more than 60 days
What is the War Powers Act?
Bombing campaign operation meant to disrupt activity on the Ho Chi Minh trail
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?