| A | B |
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| radical | extreme, especially as regards change from accepted or traditional forms |
| entitlement programs | A program using eligibility requirements to provide health, nutritional, or income suupplements to individuals. |
| welfare state | Government that assumes responsibility of for providing for the welfare of the poor, elderly, sick and unemployed. |
| Dominio theory | idea that if a nation falls to communisim, its closest neighbors will also fall to communist control. |
| counter-culture | movement that upheld values different from that of mainstream society. |
| hawks | A person who supported US involvement in the Vietnam War. |
| doves | Person who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War. |
| Vietnamization | President Nixon's plan for gradual withdrawal of US forces as South Vietnamese troops assumed more combat duties. |
| domestic policy | A nation's overall plan for one's own country. |
| foregin policy | A nation's overall plan for dealing with other nations. |
| detente | flexiable diplomacy adopted by Richard Nixon to ease tensions between the US, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China. |
| impeachment | The investigation of alleged high crimes by a public official. |
| affirmative action | Policy that gives special consideration to women and minorities to make up for past discrimination. |
| stagflation | term for the economic condition created in the 1960s and 1970s by high inflation combined with stagnant economic growth and high unemployment. |
| War powers Act | 1973 law passed by congress restricting the president's war-making powers. |
