US Hist U9 Part 1

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This flashcard deck covers key events, figures, and social changes during the Vietnam War era and its aftermath, including political movements, legislative acts, and cultural shifts in the United States.

Bringer of Light is the meaning for ______.

Ho Chi Minh
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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

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TermDefinition
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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution of _____ was rescinded by the War Powers Resolution of 1973.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