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Unit 7 Study Guide

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Who was Fidel Castro and why was he viewed as a threat by the United States?
Led a revolution that made a communist state in Cuba
Understand the Bay of Pigs (what was the goal? what was the result? Why?)
Kennedys plan was to round up Cuban exiles and invade it was not successful Castro captured exiles and jailed the invaders
Understand the causes and eventual result of the Cuban Missile Crisis
feared that the us would attempt another invasion the crisis brought the world to the brink of the nuclear war
What steps did JFK take to ease Cold War tensions (hotline, test ban treaty)
by focusing attention on the Cold War
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What was The Great Society?
was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
Compare and contrast liberalism and conservatism
the holding of liberal views. -liberalism
conservatism holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.
What major pieces of civil rights legislation were passed under Johnson's watch?
Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the great society
Understand the War on Poverty
Designed to help poor Americans also included job training and improving housing
Economic Opportunity Act
authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty
Medicaid and Medicare
Medicaid is a health care program that assists low-income families or individuals Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older
Environmentalism
concern about and action aimed at protecting the environment.
Understanding the controversy surrounding The Great Society
The big government it would be expensive it would raise taxes and the federal gov into areas which reserved only states and local gov
Engel v Vitale
A Supreme Court case that ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose school prayers or encourage recitation in public schools
Mapp v Ohio
mapp v Ohio a case were the Supreme Court had to detrime if the fourth amendment right was violated when police officers entered a home with no warrant
Miranda v Arizona
Miranda had been questioned, had confessed, and had signed a written statement without being told that he had a right to a lawyer his confession was used at tria
Gideon v Wainwright
requires the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves
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Understand the causes and outcomes of the First Indochina War
The First Indochina War began in French Indochina on 19 December 1946 and lasted until 1 August 1954. Fighting between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the South dated from September 194
Vietminh
a member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954-75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.
Domino Theory
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
Geneva Accords
arranged a settlement which brought about an end to the First Indochina War.
Viet Cong
an active revolt or uprising.
Insurgency
an active revolt or uprising.
Understand the Gulf of Tonkin incident
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, drew the United States more directly into the Vietnam War. It involved two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin inciden
How/Why did Johnson "Americanize" the Vietnam War?
The decision to introduce American combat troops to the Vietnam War
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How did the geography of Vietnam make war a difficulty?
the climate was like swampy and gave them effects in the foot etc
NVA
NVA, as it was generally known by Americans and South Vietnamese, in this effort
What is Agent Orange and why did US forces use it?
Agent Orange is a herbicide and defoliant chemical. It is widely known for its use by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program destroy enemy crops
Understand the guerilla war tactics used by the Viet Cong
which a small group of combatants such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics
War of attrition strategy
Attrition warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and materiel.
Why didn't US leader pursue a total war?
we didn't want to cause any more problems and american was already losing their own supporters and the war they was not already supported
How/why did the United States attempt to win the support of the people of South Vietnam?
So the full Vietnam would not fall to communism
Why did the strategy of pacification fail?
It was not as effective and easy to push under the rug
How did TV affect Americans' perceptions of the war?
They got to see what the government didn't truly tell them
Be able to compare and contrast the arguments of hawks and doves
The doves had many antiwar protests
Hawks protest wanted to fight and protest
Understand the protests against the Vietnam War
Americans felt we were sending to many troops to a war we had no part of getting our selves into
26th Amendment
States cannot deny the right to vote based on age (18+)The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Understand why the draft fell disproportionately on the poor and minorities
Because they felt like they did not get their voices heard and was shunned out
Understand Tet offensive (what was it, what was its goal, was it a success, how did it impact the view of Americans?)
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968
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Understand the "carrot and stick" plan used by Nixon to bring "peace w/ honor"
Carrot do what I say and everything will be fine stick if you disobey you will get the stick
Understand the expansion of the war into Cambodia (why?)
Because they had to destroy the route and the route was on the border of Cambodia
How did the expansion of the war result in more protests?
More people got their voices heard and spoke out pr even opposed the war
My Lai Massacre
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 196
Kent State shootings
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War
The Pentagon Papers
was the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam
New York Times Co. v. United States
New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the First Amendment
The War Powers Resolution
a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict
What were the results of the Paris Peace Accords?
was an agreement between the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
PTSD
The history of the development of the PTSD concept is described by Trimble
What was the ultimate fate for Vietnam?
Was dived down the 17th parallel
Understand the human cost of The Vietnam War
Thousands of people died a week
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Stagflation
an economic condition in which prices and the rate of unemployment increases at the same time
The energy crisis of the 1973
1973 oil crisis. The 1973 oil crisisbegan in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo. ... By the end of the embargo in March 1974, the price of oil had risen from US$3 per barrel to nearly $12 globally; US prices were significantly higher.
Realpolitik
a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
Détente'
the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries."a serious effort at detente with the eastern
Understand how Nixon improved relations with China and The Soviet Union
President Nixon became the first US president to visit Communist
China and the Soviet Union in 1972, while the US was still fighting
the Vietnam War.
SALT
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and correspondinginternational treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control.
Understand the Watergate scandal and how it lead to the resignation of Nixon
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters
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