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NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement. -
Federal Housing Authority
The Federal Housing Administration is a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934 -
Potsdam Agreement
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II -
Domino Theory
Domino Theory is a theory that if one nation becomes Communist the surrounding nations will also become Communist. -
Vietnam
The Vietnam War was a military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The war was fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries -
Draft
The draft is when the government takes men and send them to the army. The United States discontinued the draft in 1973. -
Chicano Movement
The Chicano Movement began in 1960 Mexican-merican barrios throughtout the zsouthwest as artists began using the wlls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict and celebrate Mexican-American culture. -
Abby Hoffman
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party. -
Vietnamization
The US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
Anti-War Movement
a campaign against entering or continuing a war. -
OPEC
OPEC is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries -
Affirmative Action
The Affirmative Action was a police enacted to right the wrongs of the discrimination of the past by increasing representation in employment and education for minorties and women -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States. -
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin incident is the name given to two separate confrontations, one actual and one false, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964 -
Great Society
Was a set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson -
, Head Start
Head Start is a US child development program designed for low-income families -
, Tinker v. Des Moines,
1965, John Tinker, his sister Mary Beth, and a friend were sent home from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. The school had established a policy permitting students to wear several political symbols, but had excluded the wearing of armbands protesting the Vietnam War. Their fathers sued, but the District Court ruled that the school had not violated the Constitution. The Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court, and the Tinkers appealed to the Supreme Court. -
tet Offensive
began on january 30th when the south veitnamese national liberation froce simulaneouly attacked a number of targets, many with high concentration of U>S troops. -
Roy benavidez
a sodlier from texas, won the congressional meadal of honor and saved the lives of fellow soldiers during the veitnam war. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the office. -
26th Amendment,
set the voting age at 18, because of drafting. -
Title IX
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a United States law enacted on June 23, 1972 -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 is a federal law intended to check the President's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. -
, Fall of Saigon,
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the North Vietnamese Army on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam under communist rule. -
Escalation
is the process of increasing or rising
