Terms & Names: Chapter 29

Lyndon Baines Johnson: served as president from 63-69, succeeded Kennedy after the assasination, democrat, designed "Great Society" legislation (included Medicare/Medicaid, civil rights laws, war on poverty), escalated US involvement in Viet Nam,

Civil Rights Act of 1964: outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, and employment.

Equal Employment Opportunity Comission: created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, investigated racial discrimination in cases of employment, helped enforce the CRA of 1964.



Title VII: prohibited all discrimination based on anything for employment.

Medicare and Medicaid: Medicare- government funded healthcare for the elderly, medicaid- government funded healthcare for the poor.

Barry Goldwater: Arizona (R) senator, inspired resurgence of conserative movement, "Mr. Conservative," crusades against federal government, labor unions and welfare state.

Freedom Summer: aka Mississippi Summer Project, 1964 effort to register as many blacks as possible for the vote in Mississippi.

Voting Rights Act of 1965: outlawed voter discrimination, outlawed prerequisites for voting.

Great Society: a set of domestic reforms initiated by Lyndon B. Johnson, with two main goals- elimination of racial discrimination and poverty, education, medical care, urban stuff, transportation.

Office of Economic Opportunity: agency responsible for carrying out War on Poverty legislation.

Head Start: part of the US Health and Human Services deal that provides education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement with low-income students, and families.

Community Action Program: local agencies that helped to carry out the empowerment of poor.

Losing Ground:

Domino Effect: idea that if communism spread to one Asian country, they would all become communist.

Tonkin Gulf Resolution: congressional approval of Johnson's right to begin war in Viet Nam, but not a full on declaration of war.

Ho Chi Minh: communist leader in Viet Nam.

General William Westmoreland: commanded American military in Viet Nam.

Rolling thunder: US bombing attacks on Viet Nam.

Search and Destroy: Viet Nam military strategy, deploy military groups for a special mission, go in, accomplish mission and get out again.

Operation Ranchhand: policy of spraying herbicides over Viet Nam, which consequently ended up killing people too.

Hawks and doves: Hawks were those that supported US involvement in Viet Nam, doves opposed it.

Students for a democratic society: students of the New Left, lots of protesting and activism.

teach-ins: professors would lecture on contemporary issues and have open discussion and not limit the parameters of the discussions.

In loco parentis: refered to the acting of professors at college as the guardians of college students.

Hippies: youth movement of the counter culture, anti vietnam war, into drugs, sex and rock and roll.

Bob Dylan: singer, songwriter, iconic of the youth counter-culture movement.

The Beatles: British invasion, revolutionized the music scene.

Martin Luther King Jr.: civil rights leader, believed in nonviolent noncooperation.

Black Power: civil rights movement emphasizing racial pride and black political power and other things.

Stokely Carmichael: civil rights leader, initially an integrationalist, but then part of black power movement.

Selma: Alabama, site of large voting rights movement, then sight of large march for civil rights.

Malcom X: militant, black power civil rights leader.

Watts Riots: 6 day long, large-scale race riot in LA, California.

Black Panther Party: political party created to increase black power and pride.

James Brown: black singer and dancer, very influential to music scene.

Tet Offensive: turning point in the Viet Nam War, Viet Kong and North Viet Namese forces attacked South military and civilians in an effort to inspire the South to become fed up with the Americans and want them out.

Robert Kennedy: worked closely with JFK on Cuban Missle Crisis, Attorney General and then New York Senator.

Richard J. Daley: democratic "boss" of Chicago, last of the big political bosses, thought to have possibly unfairly supported Kennedy in 1960 election.

Abbie Hoffman: politicial and social activist, started Youth International Party (YIPs)

Ralph Nader: perenial presidential candidate, environmental, independant.

Hubert Humphrey: Johnson's VP, from minnesota, pro-civil rights democrat.

Richard Milhouse Nixon: president, watergate scandal, president during Viet Nam war, pretty good guy, economics- price controls, off gold standard, foreign policy extremely successful.

George Wallace: populist, southern governor of Alabama, democrat, pro-segregationist, opposed Nixon.

Curtis Lemay: Wallace's running-mate, head of air force during WWII.

Family Assistance Plan:

Stagflation: inflation and stagnation occur at the same time, hard to get rid of, counterintuitive.

New Federalism: move back to the idea that states should have predominant rights, not federal government.

Earl warren: Supreme court justice, liberal rulings,

Miranda v. Arizona: Supreme court ruled that testimony obtained under interrogation is legit only if the prisoner was informed of their rights to things.

Dandridge v. Williams:

Civil Rights Act of 1968: expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin,

Warren Burger: Supreme court justice, conservative, but was part of many very progressive decisions during term.

Roe v. Wade: supreme court decision which stated it was legal for women to choose abortions.

National Organization for Women: largest feminist organization in the US

Equal Rights Ammendment: never passed, proposed elimination of any type of discrimination based on sex.

Phyllis Schlafly: conservative, opposed feminism.

Henry kissinger: political scientist and diplomat, national security advisor, Nixon's secretary of state,

Detente: process by which previously hostile nations scale down tensions.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I): first of two disarmament talks between US and Soviets,

Vietnamization: 1969-75, the goal was to buy time and build up S. Vietnamese power, so they could defend their own nation.

Nixon Doctrine: statement by Nixon at Guam that said that the US now expected its allies to be responsible for their own military defense

Kent State: killing of students by US troops while protesting.

Jackson State: killing of students by US troops while protesting.

Khmer Rouge: communist ruling party of Cambodia, Nixon attacked them for a while.

Daniel Ellsberg: american military analyst who released the Pentagon Papers.

Christmas bombing: aka operation linebacker, areal bombardment of N. Vietnamese communist points.

My Lai: massacre of S. Vietnamese by US forces in 1968.

George McGovern: rep, senator, pres nominee, noted opposer of the Viet Nam War, worked against global poverty and hunger.

CREEP: committee to reelect the president, under Nixon, way illegal measures.

Watergate: scandal in which people associated with the Nixon presidency broke into the Democratic headquarters and some other places and were caught.

Judge John Sirica: presided over Watergate Scandal case,

Twentysixth Ammendment: standardized voting age at 18 years.

Spiro Agnew: Nixon's VP

Gerald Ford: (served 1974-77) prez after Nixon, signed Helsinki Accords, worst economy since the Great Depression. ...Read more