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Who created the peace corps?
Kennedy
The passage of this resolution gave Johnson a “blank check” in Vietnam
Golf of Tonkin Resolution
What was the name of Johnson’s domestic reform policies?
Great Society
Who was better at working with Congress/got more things passes?
Lyndon Johnson
What was the most serious blow to Johnson’s Vietnam policy?
The Tet Offensive
White Southern’s began to court Black Voters because of what law?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Immigration Act of 1965 brought more people from where?
Latin America
This policy by Nixon was the gradual handover of the ground war of the South Vietnamese
Vietnamization
Who was an expert at foreign affairs?
Nixon
NOTE! Johnson’s insistence on fighting the Vietnam war and the Great Society at the same time led to what?
Inflation
NOTE! The skepticism of authority in the 60’s had what?
Deep historical roots in American Culture
At which party convention in Chicago in 1968 were there violent conflicts between police and anti-war demonstrators?
Democratic Convention of 1968
This policy is the French word for “relaxed tensions”
Détente
Who was Nixon’s chief foreign policy advisor?
Henry Kissinger
What was the name of the papers that exposed the deception and lead the United States into the Vietnam War?
Pentagon Papers
NOTE! American forces in Vietnam were composed of who?
The least privileged young Americans
What did Nixon do to the troop numbers?
Decrease
This case said that any abortion law violated a woman’s right to privacy
Roe V Wade.
This law requires that the President reports to Congress when he commits troops
War Powers Act
Who created Medicare?
Johnson
To stop inflation of the 1970’s what President imposed wage and price freeze?
Nixon
In 1973 the American public was shocked to learn that the US was secretly bombing what country?
Cambodia (Ho Chi Minh Trail)
What was Johnson before he became Vice-President?
Majority Leader of the Senate
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