Vocab 3-20-12

Question 1

Agent Orange

Answer 1

An herbicide used as a chemical weapon during the Vietnam war to kill vegetation and expose enemy hiding places.

Question 2

American Indian Movement

Answer 2

organization formed in 1968 to help native americans

Question 3

Clean Air Act

Answer 3

Law passed in 1970 that aimed to control pollution caused by the discharge of industrial and municipal waste water, and provided for grants to build better sewage treatment facilities

Question 4

Conscientious Objector

Answer 4

a person who opposes war on moral or religious grounds

Question 5

Counterculture

Answer 5

Group of young Americans in the 1960s who rejected conventional customs and mainstream culture

Question 6

Deferment

Answer 6

Official postponement, as in a postponement of compulsory military service

Question 7

domino theory

Answer 7

if one country falls to communism, the rest of neighboring countries will

Question 8

environmental protection agency

Answer 8

government organization formed in 1970 to set and enforce national pollution control standards

Question 9

equal rights amendment

Answer 9

proposed constitutional amendment, never ratified, to prohibit discrimination on account of sex

Question 10

feminism

Answer 10

theory favoring the political, economic, and social equality of men and woman

Question 11

generation gap

Answer 11

term used to describe the widening difference in values eternal a younger generation and their parents

Question 12

Geneva accords

Answer 12

1954 international conference in which Vietnam was divided into two nations

Question 13

gulf of Tonkin resolution

Answer 13

1964 congressional resolution authorizing president Johnson to take military action in vietnman

Question 14

Ho Chi Minh trial

Answer 14

a supply route used to carry groups and supplies from north to south Vietnam

Question 15

napalm

Answer 15

highly flammable chemical dropped from us planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam war

Question 16

national liberation front

Answer 16

political arm of vietcong

Question 17

national organization for women

Answer 17

organization formed in 1966 to promote the full participation of women in American society

Question 18

nuclear regulatory commission

Answer 18

government organization formed in 1974 to overuse the civilian uses of nuclear materials

Question 19

Paris peace talks

Answer 19

negotiations between the United States and north Vietnam

Question 20

POW:

Answer 20

prisoner of war

Question 21

MIA

Answer 21

Missing in action

Question 22

silent majority

Answer 22

term used by president Nixon to describe Americans who opposed the counterculture

Question 23

tet offensive

Answer 23

1968 attack by viet cong and north Vietnamese forces throughout south Vietnam.

Question 24

united farm workers

Answer 24

union created by Cesar Chavez to organize Mexican field hands in the wear

Question 25

Vietcong

Answer 25

community guerrillas in south vietnam

Question 26

Vietminh

Answer 26

common name for the league for independence of Vietnam

Question 27

Woodstock festival

Answer 27

music festival in upstate New York