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President Johnson used this incident as the reason to ask congress for authority to fight communist aggression in Vietnam

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gulf of Tonkin

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president Johnson believed this had the resources to eliminate poverty in American

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government

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name of the first russian satellite successfully launched into space

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sputnick

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country that one-fifth of the nation’s population was slaughtered by communists

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cambodia

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pro-communist south Vietnam

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viet cong

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legislation guaranteeing the rights of african americans dedicated to JFK

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civil rights act of 1964

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goal was to eliminate poverty and inequality

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great society

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banned poll taxes

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24 amendment

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broad legal interpretation to attack social problems

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judicial activism

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a call for civil rights by ant means necessary

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black power

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rebellious youth movement of the 1960’s and the early 1970’s

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counter culture

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law abiding middle class americans

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silent majority

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relaxation of the US soviet tensions

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dentent

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university where four students killed during a 1970 anti war protest

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kent state

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government health insurance program was instituted in 1965 to help elderly people pay their medical expenses

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medicare

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organization congress established to conduct the new American space program

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NASA

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this 1968 north vietnamese offensive was a military failure but a political success for communist forces

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tet offensive

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advocate of judicial activist

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earl warren

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stolen documents published in 1971 increased sentiment

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pentagon papers

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south vietnamese villages where hundrands of civillians killed becuase they were suspected of aiding the Viet COng

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Mylai

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in what city did the north Vietnamese meet with the US fore peace talks

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Paris

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civil rights leader assassinated April of 1968

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MLK junior

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the great society

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Johnson

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republican nominee for president in 1964

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Byry Goldwater

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democratic candidate who was murdered in 1968

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Robert J. Kennedy

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democratic nominee for president in 1968

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Hubert Humnney

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republican “law and order “ campaign

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Nixon

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candidate of the american independent Party in 1968

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Wallace

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secretary of state who negotiated with the soviet union

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Kissinger

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democrat who lost the 1972 election

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George Megoun

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assassin of president kennedy

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Lee Havey Oswall

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he was court martialed for massacring vietnamese civillians

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Will Calay

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the worst urban riot during the 1960s

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Detroit

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before becoming president johnson had served as

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Senate Majority leader

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these men, Eugene McCarthy , Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey were

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1968 presidental candite

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as ninety day freeze on wages and prices was a provision of the

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New econic policy

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George Wallace was the governor of

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Alabama

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Alan Shepard John Glenn and Neil Armstrong were

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NASA atromors

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why was the Vitenam war harded to fight then the Korean war

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Russian and Chinease support for the communist

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what was Nixon greatest forign policy trumpt

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established of relations with communist china

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what 3 things handled by Nixon in the war

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bombing of North Vietnam
raids into Laos
Raids into cambodia

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list related to the Vietnam war

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  • court marshall william calley
  • publication of the pentagon papers
  • protest a Kent state

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