Johnson's vision of a more perfect and equitable society was called _____.
What is the Great Society
100
This act supported the development of standards and goals for air quality.
What is the Clean Air Act
100
A chemical that strips leaves from the trees and shrubs, turning farmland and forest into wasteland.
What is Agent Orange
100
The cutting back of the number of troops in Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization
200
JFK captured the imagination of the American dream with his youth and optimism. This became known as ______.
What is the Kennedy Mystique
200
This established a comprehensive health insurance program for all elderly people.
What is medicare
200
This act supported highway safety by improving federal, state, and local coordination and by creating training standards for emergency medical technicians.
What is the Highway Safety Act
200
Irregular troops who usually blend into the civilian population and are often difficult for regular armies to fight.
What are guerillas
200
A group of faculty members and students at the University of Michigan abandoned their classes and joined together in a ______.
What is a teach-in
300
JFK set out to implement a legislative agenda, known as _____, which would increase aid to education, provide health insurance to the elderly, create a Department of Urban Affairs, and help migrant workers.
What is the New Frontier
300
This act maintained a strict limit on the number of immigrants admitted into the USA each year.
What is the Immigration Reform Act of 1965
300
This act funded a preschool program for the disadvantaged.
What is Project Head Start
300
The belief that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would the other nations of Southeast Asia.
What is the domino theory
300
These documents revealed that many government officials during the Johnson administration privately questioned the war while publicly defending it.
What are the Pentagon Papers
400
Kennedy's voiced concern that the USA was behind the soviets in weaponry.
What is the missile gap
400
President Johnson sought to find ______, which effictively allowed him to build coalitions and make him one of the most powerful leaders in the Senate's history.
What is consensus
400
This act established new housing subsidy programs and made federal loans and public housing grants easier to obtain.
What is the Housing and Urban Development Act
400
The passing of ______ authorized the president to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
400
In 1973 Congress passed this act as a way to reestablish some limits on executive power.
What is the War Powers Act
500
This trial made segregation in public schools unconstituional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
500
This program put young people with skills and commnity-minded ideals to work in poor neighborhoods and rural areas to help overcome poverty.
What is VISTA
500
This act was funded by federal and state goverments and provided health and medical assistance to families with low income.
What is Medicaid
500
The leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement.
Who is Ho Chi Minh
500
This group of people wanted the United States to withdraw troops from the war in Vietnam.