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| Peace Corps | a nonmilitary aid program introduced by John Kennedy |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba, came to power through a revolution in 1959 |
| Berlin Wall | a barrier of concrete and barbed wire between Communist East Berlin and West Berlin |
| Cuban missle crisis | a threat to national security that occurred when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missles in Cuba |
| Neil Armstrong | Commander of the first lunar landing mission, he was also the first person to step on the surface of the moon |
| Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin | Copioleted the first lunar landing mission, he was the second man to walk on the moon |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, his government aided the Vietcong |
| domino theory | the idea that Communism would spread rapidly throughout Southeast Asia |
| Vietcong | the South Vietnam forces that were supported by North Vietnamese Communists |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | gave President Johnson the power to send combat troops to Vietnam |
| escalation | increased involvement in the Vietnam War |
| William Westmoreland | Commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he began the strategy of search-and-destroy missions |
| search-and-destroy missions | the strategy used in the Vietnam War in which enemy targets were located and attacked |
| Tet Offensive | a series of attacks by Vietcong forces that proved to many Americans the Vietnam War was not being won |
| doves | opponents of the Vietnam War |
| hawks | supporters of the Vietnam War |
| Students for a Democratic Society | a group organized to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War |
| hippies | young people who rebelled against the mainstream culture of the 1960s |
| Richard M. Nixon | The 37th president of the United States, he withdrew troops from Vietnam, ending the hugely unpopular war. He became the first president to resign, after the Watergate scandal affected his credibility |
| Henry Kissinger | Served as a secretary of state under President Nixon and helped form the policy of realpolitik |
| Vietnamization | a policy introduced in an attempt to leave the Vietnam War, in which Vietnamese forces would take over the fighting |
| Twenty-sixth Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution that lowered the voting age to 18 |
| War Powers Act | a law that requires a president to get Congressional approval before sending troops into combat |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial | a war memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the veterans of Vietnam |
