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Vietnam Timeline

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    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.
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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.
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    Roy Benavidez

    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.
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    Abby Hoffman

    Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party.
  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act

    Increased federal power during WW2.
  • Potsdam Agreement

    Potsdam Agreement

    The Allied (UK, US, USSR) plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Nazi Germany and the entire European Theatre of War territory.
  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory

    The idea that if one country fell to communism more would too like a line of domino's.
  • Escalation

    Escalation

    Increasing.
  • Vietnam

    Vietnam

    Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. Also a place where the Vietnam War was held.
  • Great Society

    Great Society

    gave americans the option of wellfare, food stamps, etc.
  • Chicano Movement

    Chicano Movement

    a cultural as well as a political movement, helping to construct new, transnational cultural identities and fueling a renaissance in politically charged visual, literary, and performance art.
  • OPEC

    OPEC

    Put embarggos on US oil ships.
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    Was a way to appologize to minorities and weman to give them better oppertunity.
  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin

    The fight between north vietnam and the US.
  • Federal Housing Authority

    Federal Housing Authority

    When the governmaent helped people pay for their houses.
  • Head Start

    Head Start

    Helped poverty struct people get back on their feet.
  • Anti-War Movement

    Anti-War Movement

    American citizens protested against the war.
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    TV coverage of the war gave movement to this.
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization

    Turning over the south vietnamise government responsibility for waging the conflict.
  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Tinker v. Des Moines

    Re-enforced that kids right of free speech was still in act in the classrooms.
  • Draft

    Draft

    When the US forced some menthat ere 18-21 to fight in the vietnam war.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment

    Gave 18byear olds the right to vote in the US.
  • Title IX

    Title IX

    No descrimination againt different genders.
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon

    When the last US helicopter left vietnm to try to tske everyone out of the country to try to take everyone away from comunisim.
  • NAFTA

    NAFTA

    Set rules and regulations for international warfare.