| A | B |
|---|
| Ho Chi Minh | communist leader of North Vietnam |
| Vietcong | another name for North Vietnamese |
| Gulf of Tonkin | gave LBJ unlimited power in Vietnam War |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | LBJ expanded the war to include bombing N. Vietnam |
| Robert McNamara | Sec. of Defense under JFK and LBJ |
| Agent Orange | used to ‘de-forest’ Vietnam |
| Tet Offensive | North Vietnam attacked US in multiple locations, Jan 1968 |
| My Lai incident | US troops massacred Vietnamese village |
| Vietnamization | Nixon’s attempt to turn the war back over to the Vietnamese |
| Pentagon Papers | Daniel Ellsberg, proved LBJ lied about Vietnam |
| 26th Amendment | changed the voting age from 21 to 18 |
| NY Times v. US | Pentagon Papers could be released |
| Paris Peace Accords | US withdrew from Vietnam |
| War Powers Act | limited the power of president to send troops into combat |
| Domino theory | John Foster Dulles, if one country falls to communism, others will follow |
| Sputnik | 1st satellite in outer space, Soviet |
| NASA | created by US, put a man on the moon, space race |
| National Defense Education Act | more money spent on math and science |
| Peace Corps | JFK, money and volunteers to 3rd world countries |
| Great Society | LBJ’s War on Poverty would create this |
| Medicare | medical coverage for the elderly |
| Robert Kennedy | 1968 candidate for democratic nomination for president, killed |
| Watergate | led to Nixon’s impeachment |
| US v. Nixon | president denied executive privilege, must turn over tapes |
| 25th amendment | presidential succession |
