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Potsdam agreement
plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany—referring to the German Reich -
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Domino Theory
existed between the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the United States government, which speculated that if one state in a region -
Vietnamization
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, -
Abby hoffman
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party -
OPEC
was founded in Baghdad, Iraq, with the signing of an agreement in September 1960 -
Chicano Movement
of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, also known as El Movimiento, is an extension of the Mexican American -
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Great society
was a set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University -
Head start
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Richard Nixon
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. -
Escalation
Escalation is the expansion of war. This occured during the war in 1965-68 after President Johnson won the election in 1964. More money was incouraged in order to help the troops. The soldiers had gone to Vietnam to advise and prop up the South Vietnamese government and military to prep them for war. -
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Master Sergeant Raul Perez Benavidez was a member of the Studies and Observations Group of the United States Army. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968 -
Tet offensive
was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam -
LBJ
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. Wikipedia -
Draft
n 1973, moving to an all-volunteer ..... the history of voluntary American military service as preferable for a democracy. -
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. -
26th amendment
to the United States Constitution bars the states and the federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen. -
Fall of saigon
was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation -
Affirmative action
known as positive discrimination in the United Kingdom, refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual -
Anti-war movement
ctually consisted of a number of independent interests, often only vaguely allied and contesting each other on many issues, united only -
NAFTA
is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North -
Title IX
basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. Title IX:
