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is a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. It insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying.
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plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany—referring to the German Reich with its pre-war 1937 borders including the former eastern territories—and the entire European Theatre of War territory.
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existed between the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the United States government, which speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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s a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.
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was a set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University and subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s.
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began in 1960 Mexican-America barrios throughut the Southwest as artists began using the walls of city building, housing project, schools, and churches to depict and celebrate Mexican-American culture.
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was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party.
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increased presidential powers for war options.
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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
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was a policy enacted to right the wrongs of the discrimination of the past by increasing representation in employment and education for minorities and women.
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a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It launched in 1965.
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Master Sergeant Raul Perez Benavidez was a member of the Studies and Observations Group of the United States Army.
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U.S. troops had been in Vietnam for three years before the Tet Offensive, and most of the fighting they had encountered were small skirmishes involving guerilla tactics.
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is the process of increasing or rising, derived from the concept of an escalator.
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the office.
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was a policy of the Richard M. Nixon administration during the Vietnam War, as a result of the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops."
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ruling stated that freedom of speech anf free and expression were rights protected for students in U.S. public schools
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to the United States Constitution bars the states and the federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen.
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makes it illegal to deny participation in activities funded with federal funds on the basis of gender.
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In responce to their for Israel in 1973, OPEC placed embargoes on US oil shipments.
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has been disagreed upon by U.S. presidents since 1973 due to the act they feel it is unconsitutional and restricts the presidential power to spend troops into combat.
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was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975.
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is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.3 million inhabitants as of 2012, it is the world's 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country.
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groundswell of support to compel a candidate to run for office
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is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada.
