APUSH Quest

ho chi minh

Communist leader of North Vietnam

ngo dinh diem

Leader of South Vietnam

dien bien phu

location of final battle that forced the French out of Vietnam

bay of pigs

In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. CIA landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure. strengthened castro and pushed him towards soviets

cuban missile crisis

The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. ended with the soviets withdrawing missiles and ships turning back.

berlin wall

fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world.

credibility gap

American public's growing distrust of statements made by the government during the Vietnam War

pentagon papers

secret government documents published In 1971; revealed that the u.s. government had misled americans about the vietnam war.

gulf of tonkin resolution

1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam

mapp v ohio

Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)

baker v carr

case that est. one man one vote. this decision created guidelines for drawing up congressional districts and guaranteed a more equitable system of representation to the citizens of each state

gideon v wainwright

A person who cannot afford an attorney may have one appointed by the government

Escobedo v. Illinois

defendant must be allowed access to a lawyer before questioning by police

miranda v arizona

Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police.

campus violence

kent state + jackson state

major civil rights laws passed in the 1960s

-civil rights act 1964 ~ equal facilities/ forbade discrimination in education and strengthened the right to vote/outlawed job discrimination
-voting rights act 1965 - abolished literacy tests and provided assistance in registering black voters

amendments that deal with voting

15th - blacks can vote
19th - women can vote
24th - eliminated poll taxes
26th - 18 or older can vote

Vietnamization

President Richard Nixons strategy for ending U.S involvement in the vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces

tet offensive

1968, during Tet, the Vietnam lunar new year - Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army raiding forces attacked provincial capitals throughout Vietnam, even seizing the U.S. embassy for a time. U.S. opinion began turning against the war, but was a victory for them.

Johnson's Great Society Programs

The main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation were launched during this period. (Job Corps and others under War on Poverty, Medicare and, Medicaid , Project Head Start, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965)

us and vietcong strategies during the war

us - search and destroy, agent orange, napalm
vietcong - hit and run, ambushes, booby traps, small scale attacks, elaborate tunnels

Detente

the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

war powers act

Passed by Congress in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime (which can be extended for an extra thirty days to permit withdrawal) unless Congress explicitly gives its approval for a longer period. also said president had to inform congress 48 hours before the sending of troops.

What was Truman’s presidential program

the fair deal

What was Kennedy’s presidential program

new frontier

What was Johnson’s presidential program

great society