Quarterly 2 Jeopardy Review “Initial” Vocabulary Civil Rights Crisis Abroad Presidential Programs & Policies VietnamBegins with a “C”
Women’s rights organization founded in 1966 home
National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) home
military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. home
MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction home
an area separating hostile nations where neither side is allowed to have military forces. home
DMZ: Demilitarized Zone
missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads great distances home
ICBM: Inter- Continental Ballistic Missiles home
a U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments home
CIA: Central Intelligence Agency home
Programs that make special efforts to hire or enroll minorities home
Affirmative Action home
This court case gave women the right to an abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy home
Roe v Wade home
Non-violent civil rights leader for Latino rights and farmer’s rights. home
Cesar Chavez home
This proposed addition to the U.S. Constitution to protect women’s rights was never ratified home
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) home
These groups were responsible for the turn in the Civil Rights Movement from non-violent to more militant home
AIM (American Indian Movement) Black Panthers/ Black Power home
This Asian nation was divided following the departure of the French in 1954 home
Vietnam home
The U.S.S.R. put up a wall in this city to keep Communists from fleeing to a democracy home
Berlin, Germany home
This Asian nation was divided following WWII, and after a 3 year war between the Communist North & the Democratic South in the 1950s, remains divided today home
Korea home
Extremely tense time when a nearby country had nuclear weapons facing toward us home
Cuban Missile Crisis home
When JFK approved an invasion of Cuba to “take out” communist leader Fidel Castro home
Bay of Pigs Invasion home
President Kennedy increased funding for this agency to push forward the U.S. space program home
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) home
President Johnson’s Great Society programs focused on protecting civil rights and fighting this home
Poverty home
The willingness to go to the edge of all-out war, policy coined by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower home
Brinkmanship home
This program begun by President Johnson provides health care for the elderly home
Medicare home
A policy developed during the Kennedy administration, that involved preparing for a variety of military responses to international crises rather than focusing on the use of nuclear weapons. home
Flexible Response home
This massive Communist attack in Vietnam in 1968 was a military victory for the U.S. but a political defeat home
Tet Offensive home
This American strategy required “body count” statistics to determine to what extent the enemy was being worn down home
Attrition home
Term for President Nixon’s secret plan that would bring “peace with honor” to Vietnam home
Vietnamization home
Due to the impact television had on Vietnam, it was given this nickname home
The Living Room War home
This provided President Johnson the power to expand the war in Vietnam without the approval of Congress and this took that power away home
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution & War Powers Act home
This law prohibited discrimination based upon race, color, religion, national origin, & gender home
Civil Rights Act of 1964 home
This country sent 300,000 troops into North Korea to stop advancing U.S. forces during the Korean War home
China home
Nickname applied to President Kennedy’s administration because of its youth, energy, & idealism home
Camelot home
This U.S. television news anchor reported from Vietnam that the war was not going as well as claimed by the U.S. Government home
(Walter) Cronkite home
The term for the young people of the 1960s that adopted values different from those of mainstream society home
Counterculture home