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APUSH 2
AP US History terms - 2nd set
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11th Grade
01/20/2010

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Bay Of Pigs
Definition
unsuccessful attempt by Cuban refugees backed by the U.S. (Kennedy) to overthrow Castro in Cuba.
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Pentagon Papers
Definition
Daniel Elsberg released top secret documents revealing U.S. dealings in Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War that reinvigorated the waning anti-war movement.
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Credibility Gap
Definition
The ______ _____ was part of the complexity of the Vietnam war when Gen. Westmoreland’s assessment of the war turned out to be wrong. The media believed he was deliberately misleading them.
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Military Industrial Complex
Definition
a phrase used by Eisenhower to refer to the relationship between the military and business in the U.S.
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Domino Theory
Definition
The Cold War belief that if one nation comes under communist control its neighboring nations would also fall to communism.
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Vietnamization
Definition
Part of the Nixon Doctrine and begun the Johnson Administration. It was the policy of turning the war in Vietnam to the ARVN (Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam).
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Watergate
Definition
the breaking by Nixon staff members into the DNC Head quarters housed in the hotel. It resulted in cover-ups, obstruction and the eventual resignation of Nixon.
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Silent Majority
Definition
the mainstream of middle American society that supported the U.S. domestic policy and foreign policy in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and opposed the loud student/anti war types and protestors in general with slogans such as “America Love it or Leave it”
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Counter Culture
Definition
1960’s-1970’s anti-establishment youth movement that opposed the Vietnam War, believed in the use of mind expanding drugs and extreme liberalism.
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Kent State
Definition
4 students killed during SDS led anti-establishment/anti war protests in the 1970s
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CREEP
Definition
Committee to Re-Elect the President. They were the overzealous supporters of Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign.
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Vietcong
Definition
communist guerilla forces that were formed after the French involvement in Vietnam ended and the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia began.
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Domino Theory
Definition
the belief that if one nation comes under communist control, its neighboring nations will also fall under communist control.
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New Frontier
Definition
the domestic and foreign policy of President J.F.K.
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Tet Offensive
Definition
1968 offensive action by N.V.A and the Nat’l liberation front that was a military failure but a propaganda victory.
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Henry Kissinger
Definition
Nixon’s Sec. Of State who negotiated the end to Vietnam war at the Paris Peace Talks.
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Great Society
Definition
This was Lyndon Johnson’s program of bringing economic, social and political progress to the U.S. from 1965-1969 – So-called the “war on poverty”.
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EPA
Definition
Environmental Protection Agency—Established in the Nixon administration in 1970 to monitor and reduce pollution.
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Port Huron Statement 1962
Definition
SDS leader Tom Hayden manifesto that rejected what they claimed was a system of power rooted in possession, privilege, racism, or circumstance.
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Silent Spring
Definition
a book written by Rachel Carson that helped launch the Environmentalist movement in the 1960’s.
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U-2 Spy Plane
Definition
U.S. spy plane shot down over the USSR which ended a move toward “rapprochement” at the end of the Eisenhower administration.
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Whiz Kids
Definition
President Kennedy’s advisors.
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Brinkmanship
Definition
Political power politics practiced by Kennedy and Kruschev in the early 1960’s. Berlin Crisis of 1961 (Wall) and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Using the threat of war.
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
Definition
In the Vietnam War, the _ _ was the supply route used by the communist forces of Vietnam to ferry war supplies through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam.
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SDS
Definition
Students for a Democratic Society was a radical anti-war organization during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s responsible for leading Anti-War protests and campus violence.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Definition
The _ _ _ _ gave LBJ the authority to use combat troops in Vietnam.
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Bamboo Curtain
Definition
Chinese communist isolationism penetrated by Richard Nixon in the 1970s.
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Ping Pong Diplomacy
Definition
Nixon administration’s visits to Communist China.
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Iran-Contra Scandal
Definition
the __ ___ __ involved a secret arms-for-hostages-deal between the US. (Reagan Administration) and Iran to fund money for Contra Rebels (anti-communists) in Central America.
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Boat People
Definition
Refugees from Southeast Asia during the 1970’s.
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
Definition
This occurred when an Islamic fundamentalist revolution broke out in the late 1970’s in Iran, and the U.S. embassy was captured in Tehran. It helped destroy the chances for Carter’s reelection.
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Moral Majority
Definition
A movement begun in the early 1980’s among religious conservatives that supported primarily conservative Republicans opposed to abortion, communism and liberalism.
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Reaganomics
Definition
Supply side economics used by the Reagan administration. It concluded that tax cuts and de-regulation on top producers would spur economic growth. The opponents derided it as “trickle down” and voodoo economics.
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New Right
Definition
Conservative movement that was not content with Jimmy Carter’s direction liberalism, and the moral decline in America.
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Stagflation
Definition
_______ was a anemic economy with double digit inflation, and high interest rates in the Ford and Carter years.
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ERA
Definition
Feminist sponsored legislation to further women’s rights in the late 1970s that failed to pass with the necessary votes in the Senate in the early 1980s.
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MTV
Definition
Music Television Station that became a cultural happening in the 1980s, which has since been utilized by political groups to reach the youth vote.
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Evil Empire
Definition
Ronald Reagan’s description of Soviet Union because of his fierce anti-communist views and the USSR’s history of violation of human rights and aggression.
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SDI
Definition
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a missile defense program Reagan proposed to protect the USA from ememy nuclear missiles. Derided as STAR WARS by his political opponents who believed it rekindled an all out arms race.
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Afghanistan
Definition
the “Vietnam” of the Soviet Union. Reagan supported anti-communist “freedom fighters” with American weapons until the USSR withdrew in defeat.
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SLA
Definition
1970s communist/terrorists organization formed out of primarily middle class youth disillusioned with American captitalism noted for kidnapping/recruitment of Patty Hearst. Symbionese Liberation Army
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SALT
Definition
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty – 1972 Nixon/Breschnev agreement to bilateral nuclear reduction. As part of the easing of tensions (détente) in the 1970s.
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Camp David Accords
Definition
A peace deal broken by James Earl Carter that involved Israel and Egypt in 1978.
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Ralph Nader
Definition
Consumer rights activist who in the 1960’s and 70’s attacked cooperate America’s unsafe products. He wrote a book about the auto industry Unsafe at Any Speed.
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Nintendo War/CNN War
Definition
nicknames of the first Gulf War fought in 1991 after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
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911
Definition
Worst US terror attack that resulted in the destruction of the WTC in NYC and began the War on Terror.
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Berlin Wall
Definition
1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War.
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Monica Lewinski Scandal
Definition
An affair which ultimately resulted in the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
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Whitewater
Definition
Scandal implicating Bill Clinton which resulted in an extensive republican investigation in congress. Regarding Clintons’ financial records in Arkansas.
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NAFTA
Definition
North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada US and Mexico.
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Contract with America
Definition
Newt Gingrich conservative Republican realigning election 1994.
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Waco
Definition
Federal siege of Branch Davidian (cult) that resulted in the deaths of many of the members of church during the Clinton era. Used by Timothy McVeigh bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma in 1995.
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