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APUSH vocab 2.2

TermDefinition
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Authority granted by congress to President Johnson in 1964 to approve and support in advance " The determination of the president as commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against the U.S.
Ho Chi Minh Trail a supply route used by the nirth vietnamese wich was a network of paths and tunnels that led from north vietnam through laos and cambodia and into south vietnam
Tet offensive 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply
My Lai massacre It was when the Americans approached a village called My Lai on the 16th of March 1968. Reports said the village was in a area controlled by the Vietcong. However they found no VC and killed anyone in their way, 500 died.
Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge is a communist militant group that invaded Phnom Penh in 1975. They controlled Cambodia until 1979.
Paris Peace Accords 1973 peace agreement between the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War.
Henry Kissinger The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency (1970s).
Salvador Allende Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until his 1973 suicide, and head of the Popular Unity government; he was a Socialist and Marxist elected to the national presidency of a liberal democracy in Latin America.
SALT SALT I was a series of negotiations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on the issue of nuclear arms reduction. The talks helped lower the total number of missiles each side would have and eased the tension between the two.
ABM Treaty Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; Agreement between the U.S. and the USSR on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile systems.
OPEC An economic organization consisting primarily of Arab nations that controls the price of oil and the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations.
Arab oil embargo 1973; middle eastern countries of OPEC cut off all oil supplies in 1973 because US sent military to Israel in a war against some of those countries in OPEC
Solidarity Polish labor union crushed by the communist-imposed martial-law regime in 1983
Camp David Accords In 1978, an agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Egyptian and Israeli leaders that made a peace treaty between the two nations possible.
Iranian hostage crisis This foreign issue took place from 1979-1981 and involved 52 Americans being held against their will and consumed the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
Panama Canal Treaty 1978 - Passed by President Carter, these called for the gradual return of the Panama Canal to the people and government of Panama. They provided for the transfer of canal ownership to Panama in 1999 and guaranteed its neutrality.
Grenada Invasion military coup had killed the prime minister and brought Marxists to power ----Americans captured the island quickly demonstrating Reagan's determination to assert the dominance of the US in the Carribbean
Sandinistas Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy.
Iran/Contra A secret operation in which the US government secretly sent weapons to a known enemy and sent financial aid to a rebel force.
glasnost Means openness. Allowed more freedom of religion and speech in Soviet Union and satellite nations, enabling people to discuss politics openly. Was a policy of Gorbachev's.
perestroika Means restructuring or change. Allowed some private enterprise and profit-making USSR after 1985. Instituted by Gorbachev (the Soviet leader).
Contras counterrevolutionary group in Nicaragua that opposed the Sandinistas; Guerrillas who fought against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua
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