| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Khmer Rouge | communist group that brutally reigned in Cambodia |
| Dien Bien Phu | the French were defeated here by the North Vietnamese in 1954 |
| Henry Kissinger | Nixon's advisor, he negotiated the Paris Peace Accords |
| silent majority | moderates who wwanted peace in Vietnam and law and order at home |
| counterculture | a way of life that runs counter to society's traditions; hippies and yippies |
| Betty Friedan | wrote "The Feminine Mystique" and worked for women's rights |
| Ho Chi Minh | North Vietnamese leader |
| affirmative action | a program created to guarantee equal opportunities for minorites |
| William Westmoreland | US general in charge of our troops in Vietnam |
| Margaret Sanger | created the "pill", allowing sexual freedom in the 1960s |
| Act of 1965 | Voting Rights were quaranteed with this act; ended literacy tests |
| Act of 1964 | ended segregation in restaurants and public places; provided equal employment opportunities |
| Khe Sanh | DMZ border city that was under attack for about two years |
| Hanoi | North Vietnam capital, famous POW camp |
| Pol Pot | brutal Cambodian dictator |
| Viet Cong | South Vietnamese guerillas who fought US troops |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | corrupt South Vietnamese dictator; peasants did not support him |
| Lt. William Calley | in charge of the soldiers who committed the attrocities at My Lai |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP lawyer who represented Linda Brown before the Supreme Court |
| Saigon | capital of South Vietnam |
| Neil Armstrong | first man to step on the moon |
| Black Panthers | militant blacks who used violence if necessary to get equal rights |
| My Lai | city where US soldiers massacred several hundred civilians |
| Gulf of Tonkin | location where USS MAddox was "attacked" by North Vietnamese patrol boats; US entered the war militarily as a result |
| Tet Offensive | surprise attack by the North Vietnamese; it was a turning point as VC killed 4 at the US embassy in Saigon |
| Vietnamization | Nixon's policy to withdraw US troops while turning over military responsibilities to S. Vietnam |
| Kent State | Four students killed during Vietnam protest; caused many to question the war |
| Cambodia | war spilled into this country because of the Ho Chi Minh trail |
| Johnson (LBJ) | responsible for escalating the war; he sent first fighting soldiers |
| Kennedy (JFK) | sent military advisors, & and aid- no soldiers |
| 26th amendment | lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 |
| Vietnam syndrome | after effects of war- doubts about US judgment, credibilty and power |
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