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1960's & Vietnam
Question | Answer |
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Court case that made abortion legal | Roe v. Wade |
Sessions of lectures and discussions on the topic of war that were organized by faculty members of a college or university as a medium of social protest. | Teach-Ins |
President from 1968 - 1974. Elected on the promise that he would pull the U.S. out of the War with “Peace with Honor.” | Richard Nixon |
Young people during the 1960’s who opposed war, had casual sex, and experimented with drugs, wore tie-dye, had long hair. | Hippies |
Strategic bombing campaign where U.S. military aircrafts attacked targets throughout North Vietnam. | Operation Rolling Thunder |
A huge 3 day music festival put on in 1969 in New York, 400,000 people attended. | Woodstock |
Men working for Nixon’s re-election campaign got caught in the Democratic headquarters making Nixon look like a crook. | Watergate |
Result of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Congress gave Johnson full power to stop North Vietnam aggression any way necessary. | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
The US and North Vietnam signed an agreement that US troops would leave and let the South fight for themselves. | Vietnamization |
A district in San Francisco that was the center for the counterculture hippies. | Haight-Ashbury |
Artist during the 1960’s who created Pop Art. | Andy Warhol |
An unspecified large majority of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly, Nixon appealed to them for support. | Silent Majority |
U.S. troops brutally murdered innocent Vietnamese villagers including women and children, which shocked Americans when it was finally revealed to the public. | My Lai Massacre |
What hippies called the government. | The Establishment |
People living together as a group and sharing everything. | Communes |
a leaf-killing toxic chemical that devastated the landscape of Vietnam and caused birth defects for many years. | Agent Orange |
An important year in U.S. history, moon landing, Nixon elected, and Woodstock. | 1969 |
North Vietnam attacked the U.S. navy in neutral waters, was the closest the US came to declaring war on North Vietnam. | Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
Top secret government file about the Vietnam War that was leaked and printed in the paper showing that the government had not been honest with people. | Pentagon Papers |
In response to giving Johnson too much power in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, requires a president to inform Congress within 48 hours if US forces are sent into a hostile area without a declaration of war. | War Powers Act |
Pro-war Americans who strongly felt the Vietnam war should be escalated. | Hawks |
The capital of South Vietnam, captured by the North, marked the end of the war, unified Vietnam. | Fall of Saigon |
National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of college students protesting the Vietnam War, killing 4 students - Greatly decreased support for the war. | Kent State Massacre |
Mexican American who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courage in the Vietnam War. | Roy Benavides |
Americans lost faith in the government's reliability because what was being said and what they saw on the news was 2 different things. | Credibility Gap |
The Communist leader of North Vietnam, wanted to unify Vietnam. | Ho Chi Minh |
1954 - 1973: Communist North Vietnam invaded U.S. backed South, divided America. | Vietnam War |
a massive attack by the Vietcong on over 100 South Vietnamese towns and cities as well as 12 U.S. air bases during Vietnamese New Year celebrations. | TET Offensive |
One of the student protest groups operating on college campuses who demonstrated against the war. | Students for a Democratic Society |
Many students and young people opposed to the Vietnam war held protests, teach-ins, and publicly burned their draft cards. | Anti-war Protests |
Americans who strongly opposed the war and believed that the United States should withdraw from Vietnam. | Doves |
Divided north and south Vietnam. | 17th Parallel |
Students wore armbands in support of peace, they were suspended, Supreme Court ruled that students have the right to free speech as long as it doesn't disrupt the learning environment. | Tinker v. Des Moines |
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. | 26th Amendment |
Jellied gasoline that burns at 3000 degrees dropped from U.S. planes to expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts. | Napalm |
a pro-Communist South Vietnamese opposition group that carried out thousands of assassinations of South Vietnamese government officials. | Vietcong |
Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving Vietnamization | "Peace with Honor" |
Vietnamese anti-Communist who declared himself the ruler of South Vietnam and canceled elections that were supposed to unify Vietnam, US backed him in the beginning | Ngo Dinh Diem |