Pt5 Flashcards
The heaviest and most destructive air raids of the entire war on North Vietnam, civilian casualties were high, Nixon did it to get the North to sign Paris Peace Agreement and to show the South that we were not abandoning them
Christmas Bombing
Act that grants emergency executive powers to president to run war effort, can go 60 days without Congresses approval
War powers act
led the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Mario Savio
Students for a Democratic Society, formed at University of Michigan in 1960, advocated for
SDS
1968, in which American troops had brutally massacred innocent women and children, also led to more opposition to the war. William Calley was the only one convicted
My Lai Massacre
Reports the government had compiled on Vietnam, leaked by Donald Ellsberg, showed the government was untrustworthy
Pentagon Papers
- high causalities(58,000)
- high PTSD, homelessness, drug use, suicide
- treatment/health issues of veterans
Effects of Vietnam war
1964 Congressional resolution authorizing president to wage unlimited war on Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
January 1968, turning point of War in Vietnam
Tet offensive
Term used by President Nixon to describe Americans who opposed the counterculture, helped him him the election of 1968, mostly middle class
Silent Majority
President of Soviet Union, signed SALT I
Leonid Brezhnev
1972, helped improve relationship between the two countries
Nixon’s visit to China
Used by Henry Kissinger to help end Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel
Shuttle diplomacy
The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment.
Watergate
Deep Throat, helped expose Watergate scandal
Mark Felt
