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Bay of Pigs
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a planned invasion of Cuba that originated during the Eisenhower administration. The plan was to use radio propaganda from the US to promote freedom fighters and an uprising in Cuba, and l ink up an invasion force of Cuban exiles in Florida. It was a mess – there was no US military coordination, military or air support. It was a catastrophe.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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like a chameleon in many ways – whoever was in power he would lean that way. He would always ally with the Congress with whoever was in power. As VP, LBJ was miserable. He didn’t like having no real power. LBJ was the last true New Dealer. His agenda – unity and social progress through a liberal consensus. When he was sworn into office on Air Force I, he lands in D.C. and told the people he would do his best. He got more social legislation passed in his presidency than any other president.
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Barry Goldwater
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The 1964 election against Goldwater was when LBJ was at his best. What he did was to portray (wrongly) Goldwater as a right ringed war Mongol. LBJ won 61% of the popular vote, probably the greatest landslide victory since FDR beat Hoover in 1932.
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The Great Society
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Medicare, federal aid to education, federal housing and subsidies.
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Miseration
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the idea that if you don't do anything about society or the economy, things will just get worse
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Office of Economic Opportunity
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an attempt to stimulate the poor. It backfired by radicalizing activists who generated intergroup conflict. The federal govt paid radicals to attack governmental institutions. All these OEO programs were underfunded and could not fulfill all LBJ wanted to accomplish.
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Television in the Red Menace
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J. Fred McDonald wrote it. He said the overwhelming majority was watching TV. During the 50s and 60s, TV prepared the way for American activities for American broadcasting. In 1950, spy shows were coming out.
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Counterinsurgency
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combat against insurgency by forces aligned with recognized government of the territory in which the armed conflict takes place.
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Vietcong
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Vietnamese Communists
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Domino theory
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If one nation falls to communism, another will follow and the patter will continue
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Paul Wenerke
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Said the U.S. was at war with every communist country
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Geneva Conference
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1954 – came after right the battle of Dienbienphu in northern Vietnam– an extensive battle between the Frenchmen and Viet Minh and divided at the 17th parallel (DMZ). The French go to Geneva to settle this thing, the US didn’t participate.
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John Foster Dulles
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he was the Secretary of State and most total anti-communist. In 1954, SETO was developed as a mirror image of NATO. Dulles cooked this one up and it was collective security arrangement in southeast Asia. It was anti-French, which they knew. They did not like being thrown out of Indo-China and that Americans were looking very closely at it as a place to develop strategic war planning.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Catholic premier of South Vietnam, part of American organization called the Friends of Vietnam which included Cardinal Spellman, the Kennedy folk. He refused to honor the communists by calling them Viet Minh, so he calls them Viet Com which is not a term of endearment. It was a derogatory term.
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Vietnam Independence League
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in Indo-China (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia - all 3 operated by France) were made up of communists and non-communists. They wanted to create a coalition of Viet Minh.
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Green Berets
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sent to Vietnam, went out on operations. Advisors went to work to train the South Vietnamese to become like US Army.
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5 o'clock fallings
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journalists are given information on the day’s war. Journalists became increasingly hostile. In 1963, journalists turn against the mission.
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Thich Quang Duc
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A buddhist priest who was pulled out of a taxi cab, doused him with gasoline, pulled out a Zippo fire and he became a candle
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National Liberation Front
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wanted to take over South Vietnam in 1964, but the American presence there stopped it. It believed in the Domino Theory – if Vietnam fell, the surrounding countries would, too.
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John Hopkins' speech
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LBJ gave the most important speech to America, but never discussed his decision to move troops on the ground. LBJ offered help to the Vietnamese to help build Southeast Asia, but Ho Chi Minh was not part of the US Senate. In 1965, LBJ began ordering search and destroy missions and the US took over the war from the Vietnamese, who were losing to the Communist.
He never raised taxes to pay for the war even though it became more expensive. He did not call up the reserves except a few times in the Air Force. Most historians believe LBJ misled the public about the military decisions he made. He did not go to Congress except for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. LBJ said there would be no change in US policy and hurt the base for democracy because he lied about this. |
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Front Line Troops
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had no good feelings for Vietnamese because they only saw them as the enemy.
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Elijah Muhammad
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created the Nation of Islam in America with members who were criminals, etc. They believed in total separation of the races. They started murdering and eating their own children, and murdered Malcolm X when he said white folks are not as bad as he thought coming back from the Middle East.
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Port Huron Declaration
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document that created the manifesto of the SDS. They didn’t believe in communism, but communalism (sharing and harmony). They relied heavily on their music.
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Betty Friedan
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wrote A Feminine Mystique and claimed women were imprisoned in a concentration camp and prevented from knowing who women were. She said social climate needed to change.
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Title 7
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ban on employment due to gender and race
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silent majority
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things weren’t falling apart as much as the press made it seem.
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Gene McCarthy
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devout Catholic who opposed LBJ
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Robert McNamara
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was forced out of office and went to work for the World Bank and Clark Clifford took over, and finally advised LBJ that the Vietnam policy wouldn’t work.
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Vietnamization
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turning over all of our gear to the South Vietnamese.
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Henry Kissinger
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German Jew who escaped the Nazis, was the direct opposite of Nixon. He wanted power, loved secrecy, plots and conspiracies. He is remembered as establishing the Kiss and Make Up. He was into Realpolitik – the politics of reality – how something is, not how it ought to be. He really disliked Nixon personally, served as Secretary of State.
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Aid to Families with Dependent Children
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money that was paid to single or divorced mothers if there was no males in the house. You were paid by the kid. Welfare became a way of life. Both male and female gender groups linked to class problems to make worse.
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Camp David Accords
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Carter brought Anwar Sudat and Menachem Begin to make an accord of peace between Israel and Egypt. Sudat was murdered after he made this agreement by the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Alvin York
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Famous draftee in WWI. After his platoon was heavily wiped out, he was given the authority to command. He led 7 men to capture a machine gun nest and killed 25 German soldiers personally, saving the lives of many.
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Wise Men
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A group of the most prominent men in the country and had nothing to do with political parties. LBJ's advisory panel.
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Committee for the Reelection of the President (CREEP)
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led to the downfall of Nixon as they broke into the headquarters of the DNC and bugged the Watergate building.
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The myth of success
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hard work comes with material success
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Hood v. Casey
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Provided rules which abortion providers must provide of a person's age.
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Korean airliner crash
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Russians at the radar were drunk. A transponder in the air traffic controller room was not on them and caused the crash. The pilots, Russians, were drunk too. In Beirut, he order marines not to load their guns. Hezbollah drove a truck full of C4 and rammed into marines, killing 274. He order the invasion on the Island of Grenada to eliminate Cuban influence.
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OJ Simpson and Rodney King
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the two big names of the race world
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Boris Yeltzin
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his policy was to convert Russia from an enemy of the US to an ally
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Middle East Accords
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brought together the Palestinians and Israel for a brief time
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