Vietnam War and the Turbulent

  • •	Vietnam Independence but Country Split at 17th Parallel

    • Vietnam Independence but Country Split at 17th Parallel

    As part of the agreement, the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam. Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, pending elections within two years to choose a president and reunite the country.
  • •	Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in North Vietnam

    • Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in North Vietnam

    president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). As the leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement for nearly three decades,
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    Vietnam War

  • •	Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate
  • •	My Lai Massacre

    • My Lai Massacre

    the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops District, South Vietnam, on March 1968.
  • •	Apollo 11

    • Apollo 11

    the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
  • •	Manson Family Murders

    • Manson Family Murders

    La Bianca murders were perpetrated by members of the Manson Family in Los Angeles, California who murdered five people on August 1969
  • •	Vietnamization

    • Vietnamization

    was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program
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    Richard Nixon

  • •	Kent State Shootings

    • Kent State Shootings

    The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed
  • •	26th Amendment

    • 26th Amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
  • •	War Powers Resolution

    • War Powers Resolution

    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.