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| Peace Corps | agency created by President Kennedy in 1961 to send skilled volunteers to developing nations to support their local communities |
| Berlin Wall | a concrete wall that the communist East German government created in 1961 to cut off West Berlin from rest of East German |
| Domino Theory | the belief that if Vietnam fell to the communists, the rest of SE Asia would fall like a "row of dominoes" |
| Viet Cong | communist insurgents in South Vietnam |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | a series of jungle paths that allowed Communist forces to travel from NV to SV |
| Escalation | increased military involement |
| Doves | opponents of the Vietnam War |
| Hawks | supporters of the Vietnam War |
| 26th Amendment | Constitutional change ratified in 1971 lowering the voting age to 18 |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Located in Washington D.C. marble wall with names of deceased |
| Agent Orange | Chemical to kill the dense forests in Vietnam; danger to health |
| Pentagon Papers | 1971 revealed that US Government had been lying about the Vietnam War's progress for years |
| Paris Peace Accords | 1973 agreement between US and NV for cease-fire |
| Emmett Till | Chicago black Teenager who was murdered in MS after whistling at a white woman |
| James Meredith | the first African-American to integrate the University of MS(1962) |
| Thurgood Marshall | First African-American Supreme Court Justice: lead attorney in Brown v Topeka Board of Education |
| Ernest Green | Member of the "Little Rock 9" that integrated Little Rock Central HS in 1957 |
| Who were the Presidential Candidates in 1972 | NcGovern and Nixon |
| Who were the candidates in 1968 | Humphrey and Nixon |
| Malcom X | African American civil rights leader who advocated using violence if necessary to secure equal rights |
| Robert Kennedy | Brother of President Kennedy; assassinated in 1968 while running for President |
| POW | Prisoners of War |
| NOW | National Organization of Women - a group formed in 1966 |
| Fidel Castro | Leader of Communist Cuba |
| Henry Kissinger | served as Secretary of State under President Nixon and helped form the policy of real politics |
| Dwight Eisenhower | US President elected in 1952 and 1956 |
| John McCain | former POW during Vietnam War; currently US Senator for Arizona |
| Yuri Gagarin | Soviet cosmonat; first man to travel in space |
| What nonmilitary tactics did President Kennedy use to confront Communism | Alliance for Progress, Peace Corps |
| How was the Cuban missile resolved | US Navy blockade |
| How did the Soviet Union take the lead in space race in 1961 | Yuri Gargarin |
| Who was Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese nationalist |
| Tonkin Resolution | giving the president the authority to take all necessary measures to repel any army attack against the forces of the US |
| How did Hippies express their disapproval of traditional culture | Long hair unusual clothes, protests |
| How did the Republicans win the presidential election of 1968 | Divisive Democraitic Convention |
| Why did the Pentagon Papers fuel antiwar feelings | Showed officials lied about the war |
| How did the 26th Amendment effect the 1972 presidential election | Lowered voting age; McGovern appealed to young |
| How did the Vietnam War end | US signed peace agreement w/North Vietnam, South Vietnam and Vietcong |
| What was the experience of veterans returning home from Vietnam | Insulted; post traumatic stress |
| My Lai Massacre | US forces killed about 500 innocent people South Vietnam village of My Lai; |
| March on Washington in 1963 | support for Civil Rights |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | the first president of South Vietnam |
| When did the Vietnam War end with France | 1954 |
| What year was Kennedy elected | 1960 |
| How many troops did US send to Vietnam in 1968 | 540,000 soldiers were sent to Vietnam |
| Were the American troops successful? | No they were not and American involvement was criticized by other countries too |
| What year did North Vietnam launch a huge attack against the South | January 1968 |
| Which President admitted at the end of March that he had failed in Vietnam | President Johnson |
| Who reduced the soldiers from South Vietnam from 543,000 to 157,000 | President Nixon |
| Why did USA got involved in the Vietnam war | Because of their belief in the Domino Theory |
| In what year the Vietcong and the armies of the North capture Saigon | April 29, 1975 |
| How many soldiers died in Vietnam | 55,000 American soldiers died |
