Unit 6: Vietnam war to GWOT

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

Communist leader of North Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem

South Vietnamese president that was catholic and strongly opposed communism. Criticized for poor leadership and corruption

John F. Kennedy

President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Lydon B. Johnson

1963, Kennedy's VP who took office upon his assassination, Great Society

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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

Free Speech Movement

An antiestablishment organization that originated in a 1964 clash between students and administrators at the University of California at Berkeley

Anti-War Movement

student protest that started as the Free Speech movement in California and spread around the world, with common denominator of opposition to war in Vietnam

President Richard Nixon

Known for watergate scandal, focused on less federal government control and communist expansion

My Lai Massacre

The killing of 200 Vietnamese old men, women and children by American soldiers

Pentagon papers

A 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War.

Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)

Malcom X

African-American civil rights leader who encouraged equal opportunity through "any means necessary"

Black Nationalism

a belief in the separate identity and racial unity of the African American community

Black Power

A slogan used to reflect solidarity and racial consciousness, used by Malcolm X. It meant that equality could not be given, but had to be seized by a powerful, organized Black community.

Angela Davis

a prominent political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as the leader of Communist Party USA in the 1960s and had close ties to the Black Panther Party.

Nation of Islam (NOI)

Religious movement among black Americans that emphasizes self-sufficiency, self-help, and separation from white society

Black Panther Party

A group formed in 1966, inspired by the idea of Black Power, that provided aid to black neighborhoods; often thought of as radical or violent.

COINTELPRO

An FBI program begun in 1956 and continued until 1971 that sought to expose, disrupt, and discredit groups considered to be radical political organizations: Targeted civil rights activists and organizations

Latino Immigration

The greatest expansion of the Latino American population yet came in 1960-1970. More than 6 million Hispanics immigrated and became citizens.

Bracero Program

Government plan that brought single men from Mexico to work on American farms

Mendez v. Westminster

Made it illegal to segregate Mexican American children in California schools

1965 Immigration Act

act passed by the US congress which ended restrictions that had instituted an annual quota for the number of individuals from regions that could immigrate

Dolores Huerta

Former teacher turned Mexican-American advocate for better treatment of farmworkers. Worked closely with Cesar Chavez.

Cesar Chavez

Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers.

Stonewall Riots

A group of riots in new york by homosexuals, marked the beginning of the gay rights movement

504 Sit-in

People with disabilities occupied federal buildings in the United States in order to push the issuance of long-delayed regulations regarding Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Election of 1964

LBJ beats Senator Goldwater who voted against the civil rights act and was a conservative republican

Silent Majority

Term used by President Nixon to describe middle class Americans who opposed the counterculture and favored law & order

Bussing

a system of transporting young people by bus to another area so that students of different races can be educated together

Stagflation

a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)

Watergate

A political scandal that occurred in the early 1970s, when President Richard Nixon's administration was caught spying on the Democratic Party in order to undermine them. This led to Nixon's resignation and tarnished the reputation of the US presidency.

Moral Majority

A movement begun in the early 1980's among religious conservatives that were opposed to abortion, communism and liberalism.

Ronald Reagan

a Hollywood actor turned politician. Implemented conservative policies like reducing spending, cutting taxes, and increasing military.

Reaganomics

These policies combined tax cuts, deregulation, and budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth.

Trickle Down Theory

Idea that decreased income taxes for the wealthy would promote business and therefore the whole economy

Iran Hostage Crisis

In November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage.

AIDS

A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles.

HIV

the virus that causes AIDS