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Bringer of Light is the meaning for ______.
Ho Chi Minh
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Bringer of Light is the meaning for ______.
Ho Chi Minh
_______ ended the war in Vietnam.
Richard Nixon
The _________ Offensive consisted of North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces on the Vietnamese New Year.
Tet
Guardsmen opened fire on students at ______.
Kent State
The ___ were the regular army of North Vietnam.
Vietminh
The United States turned defense of South Vietnam over to the Vietnamese through ____________.
Vietnamization
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Bringer of Light is the meaning for ______. | Ho Chi Minh |
_______ ended the war in Vietnam. | Richard Nixon |
The _________ Offensive consisted of North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces on the Vietnamese New Year. | Tet |
Guardsmen opened fire on students at ______. | Kent State |
The ___ were the regular army of North Vietnam. | Vietminh |
The United States turned defense of South Vietnam over to the Vietnamese through ____________. | Vietnamization |
What event threw the Democratic Party into chaos during this time? | the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy |
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution of _____ was rescinded by the War Powers Resolution of 1973. | 1964 |
A(n) _________ was a place where members of the hippie counterculture lived together without private property. | commune |
The type of war fought in Vietnam was called a war of ____________. | containment |
People who chose to evade the draft were called draft ____________. | dodgers |
The oil producing and exporting nations are often called _________. | OPEC |
The automobile industry caused ___ to become an important export from Indochina. | rubber |
The United States interfered in Vietnam trying to stop the ___________ effect of nations falling to communism. | domino |
Operation Rolling ___________ was the name of the U.S. bombing operation at the beginning of the Vietnam War. | Thunder |
The _________ Amendment lowered the voting age to 18. | Twenty-sixth |
A relaxing of tensions between the United States and communist powers was termed ___________. | détente |
Several small nations on the Indochina peninsula were put together to form ___. | French Indochina |
The ___ Trail was used by the North Vietnamese to supply their troops. | Ho Chi Minh |
The ______ family brought suit for the right of silent protest. | Tinker |
The ___ controlled Indochina during World War II. | Japanese |
What caused the credibility gap that existed for President Johnson in the early 1970s? | Americans became skeptical of reports regarding the progress of the war after the Tet Offensive. |
A war was fought between Israel and Arab nations on the Israeli holiday called ____________. | Yom Kippur |
Affirmative action programs have been criticized as ___ discrimination. | reverse |
_ means the number or percentage of minorities that were to be recruited. | Quota |
_____ gave Native Americans on the reservation the same rights as other citizens. | Indian Civil Rights Act |
A strong preference or treatment based upon a person's sex is called __________. | gender bias |
A group that believes women's rights are equal to men's rights are called __________. | feminists |
The term ___ meant that agencies, businesses, and universities would take positive steps to insure the inclusion of minorities. | affirmative action |
_____ are lands owned by Native Americans that are not subject to governmental control. | Reservations |
Who chaired President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women? | Eleanor Roosevelt |
The ___ of President Johnson included environmental programs. | Great Society |
The word Ecology was used to denote ___. | concern for the preservation of natural resources |
_____ is a pesticide that caused the death of many animals. | DDT |
What was the name of Betty Friedan's important book on women's issues? | The Feminine Mystique |
The Equal Rights Amendment ___. | failed to be ratified by the required number of states |
_____ wrote Silent Spring. | Rachel Carson |
Alcatraz and ___ were sites of Native American protests. | Wounded Knee |
By 1960, there were approximately ___ Hispanics living in the United States. | three million |
_ means the type of segregation that occurs based upon where people live. | Natural segregation |
As a result of Mendez v. Westminster, _ signed legislation ending discrimination against Hispanic school children in California. | Earl Warren |
_ founded the American G.I. Forum. | Dr. Hector Garcia |