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APUSH Chapter 29 Vocabulary
APUSH Chapter 29 Vocabulary
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10th Grade
04/20/2011

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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet Union leader during the Cold War
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Fidel Castro
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Cuban dictative leader that ruled Cuba during the Cold War before the Cuban Revolution
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Ho Chi Minh
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Formed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the Việt cộng during the Vietnam War until his death
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Robert McNamara
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American Secretary of Defense that played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in Vietnam War
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Icon of American liberalism that supported his brother JFK in his campaign for president by releasing MLK Jr. from prison causing JFK to receive mass support from minorities
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Eugene McCarthy
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first candidate to challenge incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, running on an anti-Vietnam War platform
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George C. Wallace
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best known for his Southern populist, pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period. Ran for president 4 times and lost every time.
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Henry Kissinger
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National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford that won the Nobel peace prize
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, poet, political theorist, and leader of the Chinese Revolution
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro
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Apollo program
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United States spaceflight effort which landed the first humans on Earth's Moon
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Berlin Wall
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barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic that completely cut off West Berlin (US allies) from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin (USSR)
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Alliance for Progress
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program aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and South America
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AID
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US agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid
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Peace Corps
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American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand U.S. culture, and helping Americans understand the cultures of other countries
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ICBMs
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a ballistic missile with a long range typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States during the Cold War that threatened an all out nuclear war between the two nations with nuclear missiles in neighboring countries
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Vietcong
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political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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logistical system that ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam that provided support, in the form of manpower and material
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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a joint resolution which the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 13
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OAS
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a regional international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States
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SDS
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a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. Anti-war supporters that help many protests during the Cold War
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Tet Offensive
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military campaign during the Vietnam War that fought against South Vietnam who tried to strike civilian control bases that supported South Vietnam
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SALT I
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two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control
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ABMs
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a non-profit physician-led umbrella organization for 24 of the 26 approved medical specialty boards in the United States that volunteered many nurses to the allies during the Vietnam War
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Cambodian Invasion
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a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during mid-1970 by the U.S. and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
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Kent State Shootings
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shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard caused by a police riot that occurred because of students protesting the war which turned violent
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My Lai Massacre
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the mass murder of 347–504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, conducted by a unit of the United States Army
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Pentagon Papers case
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the government's attempt to prohibit the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing portions of a secret government study on the Vietnam War
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War Powers Act
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U.S. federal law intended to restrict the power of the President to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress
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