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19 Cards in this Set
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Tonkin Gulf resolution |
johnson claims n vietnamese forces were torpedoing US boats in international waters (Gulf of Tonkin), alows president to send troops and money to vietnam without formally declaring war. Pg #1052 |
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Credibility gap |
people stopped believing in and trusting johnson because he was hiding info about how badly the war was actually going. Pg #1053 |
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Free speech movement |
berkeley students organize sit ins when they are not allowed to pass out political tracts on campus. Pg #1055 |
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Bob Dylan |
Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, painter, and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when his songs chronicled social unrest. Pg #1056 |
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The other America |
The book was a study of poverty in the United States, published in 1962 by Macmillan. It found a small but emerging audience in an America that was developing a greater self-awareness after the struggles of World War II and the Korean War. Pg #1060 |
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Office of economic opportunity |
The Office of Economic Opportunity was the agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society legislative agenda. Pg #1060 |
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Medicare |
Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities. Pg #1062 |
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Tet offensive |
vietcong attacks major s vietnamese citties and US embassy; major turning point and downfall for us. Pg #1065 |
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The whole world is watching |
"The whole world is watching" was a chant by antiwar demonstrators outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel the evening of August 28 during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Pg #1069 |
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Black panther party |
militant group to protect blacks from police violence. Pg #1070 |
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Now |
The National Organization for Women is an American feminist organization founded in 1966. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. Pg #1071 |
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Stonewall riot |
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. Pg #1074 |
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Cesar Chavez |
Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. Pg #1075 |
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Vietnamization |
nixion and kissinger pull out american troups, but orchestrate their replacement with s vietnamese soldiers. Pg #1080 |
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Kent state massacre |
The Kent State shootings was the shooting of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, by members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. Pg #1080 |
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SALT I |
strategic arms limitation treaty between US and soviet union, limits production of ICBM and ABC. Pg #1082 |
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EPA |
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the Federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing. Pg #1082 |
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Pentagon paper |
The Pentagon Papers, officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Pg #1084 |
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CREEP |
Richard Nixon's committee for re-electing the president. Found to have been engaged in a "dirty tricks" campaign against the democrats in 1972. They raised tens of millions of dollars in campaign funds using unethical means. They were involved in the infamous Watergate cover-up. Pg #1085 |
