APUSH 9 Flashcards
A product of the Cold War, it was a war between North Korea, with the support of China and the Soviet Union and South Korea, with the support of the United Nations, with the principal support from the United States. The war began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. It became the first test of the Truman Doctrine and the UN intervention when communist aggression threatened the Far East.
Korean War
A phrase used by Eisenhower to refer to the relationship between the military and business in the U.S.
Military Industrial Complex
Supreme Court ruling that overturned “separate but equal” for education. Ruled that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the 14th amendment.
brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, KS)
The domestic and foreign policy of President Kennedy
New Frontier
Political power politics practiced by Kennedy and Khrushchev in the early 1960’s. Berlin Crisis of 1961 (Wall) and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Using the threat of war.
Brinkmanship
Unsuccessful attempt by Cuban refugees backed by the U.S. (Kennedy) to overthrow Castro in Cuba.
Bay Of Pigs
Closest USSR and USA ever came to starting WWIII. Kennedy objected to the Soviet medium range missiles – he blockaded Cuba and threatened invasion.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Made discrimination for employment, education, and public accommodations illegal. In response to the civil rights movement, the strongest measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Militant organization dedicated to protect African Americans from police violence. Founded in Oakland, CA by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton had a radical agenda and the belief in armed self-defense and armed clashes with the police.
Black Panther Party
UFW founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower Mexican American migrant workers who faced discrimination and exploitative working conditions.
United Farm Workers
After the attack on US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, this resolution gave LBJ the authority to use combat troops in Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Lyndon Johnson’s program of bringing economic, social and political progress to the U.S. from 1965-1969 – So-called “war on poverty”.
Great Society
The Cold War belief that if one nation comes under communist control its neighboring nations would also fall to communism.
Domino Theory
Part of the complexity of the Vietnam war when Gen. Westmoreland’s assessment of the war turned out to be wrong. The media believed he was deliberately misleading them.
Credibility Gap
968 offensive action by North Vietnamese Army and the National Liberation Front that was a military failure but a propaganda victory.
Tet Offensive
In the Vietnam War, the supply route was used by the communist forces of Vietnam to ferry war supplies through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Part of the Nixon Doctrine and began the Johnson Administration. It was the policy of turning the war in Vietnam to the ARVN (Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam).
Vietnamization
A break in by Nixon staff members into the Democratic National Convention Headquarters housed in the hotel. It resulted in cover-ups, obstruction and the eventual resignation of Nixon
Watergate
The mainstream of middle American society that supported the U.S. domestic policy and foreign policy in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and opposed the loud student/anti-war types and protestors in general with slogans such as “America Love it or Leave it”
Silent Majority
Daniel Elsberg released top secret documents revealing U.S. dealings in Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War that reinvigorated the waning anti-war movement.
Pentagon Papers
1960’s-1970’s anti-establishment youth movement that opposed the Vietnam War, believed in the use of mind expanding drugs and extreme liberalism.
Counter Culture
Students for a Democratic Society was a radical anti-war organization during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s responsible for leading Anti-War protests and campus violence.
SDS
SDS leader Tom Hayden manifesto that rejected the establishment and what he claimed was a system of power rooted in possession, privilege, racism, or circumstance.
Port Huron Statement 1962
4 students killed on campus during SDS led anti-establishment/anti-war protests in the 1970s
Kent State
