| A | B |
|---|
| President Johnson | became President after the assassination of JFK |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | law that made racial discrimination illegal |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | when local officials refuse to do the job of registering voter fairly, federal officials will do it |
| Great Society | Presient Johnson's slogan; caring for the aged and underpriveleged |
| Head Start | education program for preschoolers |
| Food Stamps | goverment coupons for food for the needy |
| VISTA | Volunteers in Service to America; enlist volunteers to help poor areas in the US |
| Alan Shepard | First American to enter space |
| John Glenn | First American to orbit the Earth |
| Neil Armstrong | First American to land on the moon |
| Thurgood Marshall | First black American to serve on the Supreme Court |
| White Backlash | resistance to civil rights laws |
| French Colonies | Indochina (Vietman, Laos, Cambodia) wants to be free; France wants to keep control |
| Domino Theory | if one country falls to communism, the other countries will turn communist too |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Congress gave President Johnson the power to take any necessary measures to stop North Vietmamese aggression |
| Ho Chi Minh | Led the independent movement for Vietmamese communist |
| Vietcong | communist guerrillas |
| protests | opposition to the Vietnam War (Doves and Hawks) |
| Vietnamization | to get out of the Vietnam War the US would train and equip the South Vietnamese troops to take over the fighting |
| Detente | relaxing of tensions between the US and Soviet Union |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitations Talk (limit of building offensive weapons for 5 years) between US and Soviet Union |
| "Holy War" | Arab nations trying to destroy Israel |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries - Arab nations came together to get better prices/ limit oil |
| Watergate | scandal where 5 people from Nixon election campaign broke into Democratic offices |
| Solar Energy | Pres. Carter wanted more research in other types of energy and not depend on other countries for oil |
| Camp David Accords | Pres. Carter invited Egypt and Israel to continue peace talks in his vacation home |
| human rights | Pres. Carter would not acknowledge governments who violated human rights (freedom of speech, etc.) |
| SALT II | new treaty to limit the arms race; failed because Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. |
| Iranian hostage crisis | 50 Americans were taken hostage from the American Embassy |
| Three Mile Island | nuclear power plant in PA that had an serious accident |
