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28 Cards in this Set
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fighters who had hit and run tactics |
guerrillas |
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communist guerrillas supported by North Vietnam |
vietcong |
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order of presidents in this chapter |
kennedy johnson nixon ford |
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johnsons plan to improve the standard of living for every american |
great society |
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medicare
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financial support for seniors to pay for hospital bills
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medicaid
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helped people of all ages with medical bills
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poverty line
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minimum income needed to live
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Watergate Affair
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five men broke into the democratic party headquarters in the watergate apartment |
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Bay of Pigs
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south coast of cuba where 1200+ exiles came to invade the capital which failed and increased castros popularity
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exiles
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people who are forced to leave their own country
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cuban missile crisis |
ships sailed to cuba and turned back right before a war was started. a nuclear war could have started |
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detante |
an ease of tensions |
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SALT |
Strategic Arms limitation talks; between US and Soviet Union to limit the amount of nuclear weapons |
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domino theory |
the idea that if one country falls to communism others will follow |
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
allows President to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack or to prevent further aggression |
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Khmer Rouge |
communist place that won in cambodia in 1975 |
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superpower |
a nation with enough military, political, and economic power to influence events in other parts of the world |
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Berlin Wall |
built to keep people from East Germany from West Germany |
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How many soldiers (US) died in Vietnam? |
58,000 + |
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Vietnam invaded ___________ in 1979 and set up a new communist country |
Cambodia |
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N. Vietnam captured ____________ in 1975 (South Vietnams capital) |
Saigon |
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Which president called for a draft |
Lyndon Johnson |
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Which years did the war in Vietnam last |
1961-1973 |
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How much did the war cost |
24 billion a year |
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Which president sent help to South Vietnam |
JFK |
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Where was a US ship attacked in 1964 |
Gulf of Tonkin |
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Saigon was renamed ________ after the ruler of N. Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh City |
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Cambodia was renamed _______________ after Khmer Rouge took over |
Kampuchea |
