vietnam war

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  • 26th Amendment

    limits the number of times a person is eligible for election to the office, and sets additional eligibility conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessor

  • Cuban Missile Crisis-1962: was a 1 month, 4 days confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression”

  • : Medicare and Medicaid established- All states, and the U.S. territories now had Medicaid programs designed to provide health coverage for low-income people.

  • Tet Offensive- one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War

  • Tinker v. Des Moines:

    the Supreme Court's majority ruled that neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

  • : Pentagon Papers leaked-small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed

  • War Powers Act

    is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War-Saigon was so far to the south, it had effectively escaped major action and damage.