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Ho Chi Minh |
leader of a Vietnam Comunist nationalist group |
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Domino Effect |
chair reaction named by Pres Eisenhower for providing aid to the French in Vietnam |
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Dienbienphu |
fortress sieved by the Vietnam in 1954 |
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Saigon |
capital of S Vietnam |
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Ngo Dinh Diem |
anti Comunist Catholic who was a premier of the French backed S Vietnam gov |
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Vietcong |
guerilla forces that launched the Tet Offensive |
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Tet Offensive |
suprise attack on several S Vietnam cities |
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
gave Pres Johnson the authority to use military in SE Asia |
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26th Amendment |
suffrage for those 18 and older |
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SDS Tom Hayden |
Students for a Democratic Society, didnt like consumer culture or diff b/w rich and poor |
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Che Guevera |
leader of Cuban revolution |
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Pete Seegar |
folk singer who set the tone for the hippies' political idealism |
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Joan Baez |
folk singer who gained fame due to his "We Shall Overcome" |
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LSD |
'asid', a hallucinating drug, celebrated in popular music |
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Woodstock |
3 day outside concert in 69 |
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Malcolm X |
figure of Black Muslims |
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Stokley Carmichael |
called for black self reliance and racial pride under "Black Power" |
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Kerner Comm |
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders |
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Cesar Chavez |
labor leader who organized the United Farm Workers |
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AIM |
American Indian Movement |
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Grey Panthers |
old Americans who organized to demand better health, social security, and other benefits |
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Stonewall Riot |
Patrons of a gay bar fought back against police harassment |
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Wounded Knee |
where memebers of AIM staged a 71 day protest, in 1890 200 Sioux had been massacred by american soldiers |
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NOW |
National Organization for Women |
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Election 1968 |
R: Nixon, D: Humphrey, Nixon won |
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Eugene McCarthy |
senator of Minasota, anti war candidate |
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Richard Daley |
Dem mayor of Chicago |
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Henry Kissinger |
declared 'peace at hand' |
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Vietnamization |
elimianted American combat deaths |
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Khmer Rouge |
communist party that ruled Cambodia |
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Kent Satte |
anti war activist |
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My Lai |
village where atrocities were committed |
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Will Calley |
was court martialed for the attrocities commited at My Lai |
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SALT |
Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty |
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Election 1972 |
R: Nixon, D: McGovern, Nixon won |