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Vietnam War Flashcards

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The Ho Chi Minh Trail

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Starts in North Vietnam and runs through Laos to get people/goods into South Vietnam (Golf of Tonkin Resolution)

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LBJ gets blank check to

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fight war

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SDS- Students for Democratic Society

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  • immediate withdrawl of troops

- demanded more educational rights

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Woodstock (1969) was

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the climax of the counter culture (LSD, the pill, Bob Dylan)

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Women’s liberation movement was

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inspired by consciousness- raising groups

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Black Panthers

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self defense against police brutality

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“Great Society” was similar to the

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new deals

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Kerner Commission

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race riots were linked to the failures of LBJ’s the “Great Society”

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Urban Renewal Act

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housing upgrade for middle class families (Page 1050 in book)

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Martin Luther King (1967)

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young black men drafted

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War costing American taxpayers

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  • $21 Billion/ year
  • Rising inflation
  • increase in corporate & individual taxes
  • social security fund was tapped
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Tet Offensive

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  • Public support declined
  • congress refused to allow troop increases
  • LBJ withdrew from re-election
  • A year of political drama
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1968- Nixon elected (Robert Kennedy assassinated) and

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American Indian Movement

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Teach-ins

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free speech + protesting the war (students & teachers)

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Rich people figured out ways to get out of being drafted

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purposely failed tests

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Nixon visits China

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most important foreign relation move (trade with China, China pressures NV, bridge with communism

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SALT

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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty- limited bombs, cool down arms race

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Watergate Scandal & CREEP (committee to re-elect president)

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listening devices (Break into Watergate to spy on Demo. for re-election)

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War Powers Act (1973)

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response to Nixon bombing Cambodia without telling others

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Invasion of Cambodia led to

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Kent State + Jackson State protesting

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