Vocab 3-20-12 Flashcards
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Agent Orange
An herbicide used as a chemical weapon during the Vietnam war to kill vegetation and expose enemy hiding places.
American Indian Movement
organization formed in 1968 to help native americans
Clean Air Act
Law passed in 1970 that aimed to control pollution caused by the discharge of industrial and municipal waste water, and provided for grants to build better sewage treatment facilities
Conscientious Objector
a person who opposes war on moral or religious grounds
Counterculture
Group of young Americans in the 1960s who rejected conventional customs and mainstream culture
Deferment
Official postponement, as in a postponement of compulsory military service
domino theory
if one country falls to communism, the rest of neighboring countries will
environmental protection agency
government organization formed in 1970 to set and enforce national pollution control standards
equal rights amendment
proposed constitutional amendment, never ratified, to prohibit discrimination on account of sex
feminism
theory favoring the political, economic, and social equality of men and woman
generation gap
term used to describe the widening difference in values eternal a younger generation and their parents
Geneva accords
1954 international conference in which Vietnam was divided into two nations
gulf of Tonkin resolution
1964 congressional resolution authorizing president Johnson to take military action in vietnman
Ho Chi Minh trial
a supply route used to carry groups and supplies from north to south Vietnam
napalm
highly flammable chemical dropped from us planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam war
national liberation front
political arm of vietcong
national organization for women
organization formed in 1966 to promote the full participation of women in American society
nuclear regulatory commission
government organization formed in 1974 to overuse the civilian uses of nuclear materials
Paris peace talks
negotiations between the United States and north Vietnam
POW:
prisoner of war
MIA
Missing in action
silent majority
term used by president Nixon to describe Americans who opposed the counterculture
tet offensive
1968 attack by viet cong and north Vietnamese forces throughout south Vietnam.
united farm workers
union created by Cesar Chavez to organize Mexican field hands in the wear
