Vietnam War Flashcards
The Ho Chi Minh Trail
Starts in North Vietnam and runs through Laos to get people/goods into South Vietnam (Golf of Tonkin Resolution)
LBJ gets blank check to
fight war
SDS- Students for Democratic Society
- immediate withdrawl of troops
- demanded more educational rights
Woodstock (1969) was
the climax of the counter culture (LSD, the pill, Bob Dylan)
Women’s liberation movement was
inspired by consciousness- raising groups
Black Panthers
self defense against police brutality
“Great Society” was similar to the
new deals
Kerner Commission
race riots were linked to the failures of LBJ’s the “Great Society”
Urban Renewal Act
housing upgrade for middle class families (Page 1050 in book)
Martin Luther King (1967)
young black men drafted
War costing American taxpayers
- $21 Billion/ year
- Rising inflation
- increase in corporate & individual taxes
- social security fund was tapped
Tet Offensive
- Public support declined
- congress refused to allow troop increases
- LBJ withdrew from re-election
- A year of political drama
1968- Nixon elected (Robert Kennedy assassinated) and
American Indian Movement
Teach-ins
free speech + protesting the war (students & teachers)
Rich people figured out ways to get out of being drafted
purposely failed tests