Vietnam War
Unprovoked attack of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers in 1964
What was the My Lai Massacre?
13 month protest that began with the arrest of Rosa Parks.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Belief that the Soviet Union desired the worldwide spread of Communism and the associated policy of preventing this spread.
What is containment?
The easing of relations with the Soviet Union pursued by President Nixon.
What was détente?
1973 Supreme Court that established a right to abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
Massive offensive from the Ho Chi Minh backed North Vietnamese in 1968
What was the Tet Offensive?
1964 act that prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and employment and increased enforcement of school desegregation.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Russian military alliance formed in response to NATO.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
1972 agreement between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to limit nuclear arms production primarily by freezing the number of missiles each nation could deploy.
What was the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)?
1960s ideology that rejected traditional moral and sexual values.
What was counterculture?
The strategy of President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to transfer the responsibility of fighting the North Vietnamese to the South Vietnamese.
What was Vietnamization?
Unanimous Supreme Court decision under Chief Justice Earl Warren that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and "separate but equal."
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
1950-1953 war in which President Truman sent soldiers through the United Nations to bypass Congress.
What was the Korean War?
Afghan rebels against the Soviet invasion who were initially supported by the United States. Included Osama bin Laden.
What were the mujahideen?
Agency formed in 1971 under Richard Nixon as a response to growing public support for environmentalism.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
1964 congressional resolution that gave President Johnson sweeping power in Vietnam
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Peaceful civil rights protest of 250,000 people inspired by idea from A. Philip Randolph.
What was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
Unsuccessful 1961 attempt by the United States under President Kennedy to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
1979 arms treaty initially agreed on by President Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev but not ratified after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
What was SALT II?
Disillusioned liberals who turned against the Great Society programs that they had initially supported.
What are neoconservatives?
1973 congressional act that greatly limited the president's ability to start wars.
Programs meant to overcome historical patterns of discrimination particularly in employment and education.
What is affirmative action?
Government group led by the national security adviser and consisting of the secretaries of state, defense, the army, the navy, and the air force.
What is the National Security Council?
Name Reagan gave the Soviet Union
Evil Empire
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?