| A | B |
|---|
| Operation Rolling Thunder | Series of air strikes to destrou war industries in N.Vietnam |
| Escalation | Increased involvement in the Vietnam War |
| Viet Cong | Communist guerilla forces |
| Tet Offensive | North attacking the South Vietnam on the New Year |
| Geneva Accords | 1954 agreement that divided Vietnam into 2 nations |
| Khmer Rouge | Cambodian Communist Army |
| Veitnamization | U.S. policy to provide supplies and training to S.Vietnam when the US troops left the country |
| Pacification | Strategy of protecting civilian areas in the South Vietnam to gain support for the war |
| War Powers Act | Required the President to get approval from Congress before declaring war |
| Domino Theory | Belief that if one country would fall to communism others would too |
| Environmental Protection Agency | Established to enforece laws to improve air and water quality |
| Detente | Easing of tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union |
| Realpolitik | German word describing Nixons foreign policy |
| Stagflation | High inflation and high unemployment |
| Doves | Americans who called for withdrawal from Veitnam |
| Hawks | called from increased military spending to send more troops to Vietnam |
| Ho Chi Min Trail | paths and roads from N to S Veitnam |
| Paris Peace Accords | Agreement to end the Vietnam War |
| Sanctions | economic penalties |
| Trade Deficit | when a nation imports more goods than it exports |
| Iran Hostage Crisis | 50 Americans were held captive for 444 days |
| Camp David Accords | Peace agreements between Isreal and Egypt |
| Executive Priviledge | Presidents rights to keep information secret to protect national security |
| Southern Strategy | To get the white vote, limit civil rights |
| Watergate | Political scandal named after the building that was burgarized |
| Apartheid | System of laws in S. Africa that required racial segregation |
| Earth Day | attempt to raise environmental awareness |
| Silent Majority | voters who supported Nixon |
| Challenger | exploded on the way out to space |
| War on Drugs | lead to a military invasion of Panama |
| New Right | Conservatives who supported Reagan |
| Sandistas | Party who overthrew the dictator in Nicaragua |
| Jerry Falwell | Minister who lead the moral majority |
| Walter Mondale | democratic presidential candidate in 1984 |
| Geraldine Ferrara | first woman on a mjor party ticket |
| Sally Ride | first woman in space |
| Jimmy Carter | started the environmental campaign |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of the Soviet Union |
| Ronald Reagan | Republican President who was once an actor |
| Richard Nixon | resigned instead of geting impeached |
| George Bush Sr. | president from 1989-93 |
| Los Angeles Riots | caused by a not guilty verdict of police officers v. Rodney King |
| Immigration Reform Acts | granted legal status to those who lived in the country since before 1982 |
| AIDS | disease that effect the immune system |
| Internet | world wide we connection started in 1983 |
| Operation Desert Fox | air strikes in the middle east |
| Ozone Layer | Earths protective layer of gas |
| Global warming | rise in the earth's temperature |
| Cable television | increased the popularity of all sports |
| John Glen | the oldest space traveler |
| Black Monday | Stock Market Crash |
| Sun Belt | States in S. and SW attractive for the climate |
| ET | blockbuster movie about a character from outer space |
| Live Aid | to raise money for Africa |
| Terrorism | greatly increased in the 90s |
| Mark McGwire | broke a homerun record in the old Busch Stadium |
| Baseball Strikes | caused the season to shut down |
| Guerilla Warfare | used in the Vietnam war against the US |
| Bill Clinton | U.S president druing Gulf War, infamous for the Monica Lewinsky scandal |
| Al Gore | ran for President against George Bush and lost |
