Domestic 60s and Vietnam Review

If one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow.

• Head Start
• Domino Theory
• Tet Offensive
• Vietnamization

A war hero of Vietnam, who was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor by Ronald Reagan in 1981, years after the war.

• Barry Goldwater
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• John Glen
• Roy Benavidez

Investigated the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that took place on November 22, 1963.  Found no conspiracy, but blamed lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald.

• VISTA
• Warren Commission
• Credibility Gap
• Head Start

A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

• New Frontier
• Silent Majority
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Great Society

The 35th president of the United States at 43 years old, he became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office.  His presidency was cut short by an assassin's bullet.

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Hector Garcia
• John F. Kennedy
• John Glen

The American public began to doubt and dispute the facts being revealed by government officials about the war in Vietnam.

• Credibility Gap
• Silent Majority
• New Frontier
• Peace Corps

A term used by President Richard Nixon to indicate his belief that the great body of Americans supported his policies and that those who demonstrated against the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War amounted to only a noisy minority.

• Vietnamization
• Feminist Movement
• Medicare
• Silent Majority

A slogan used by President Kennedy to describe his goals and policies.  He maintained that Americans of the twentieth century had to rise to new challenges, such as achieving equality of opportunity for all.

• Credibility Gap
• New Frontier
• VISTA
• Great Society

The Nixon policy of gradually reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam and returning control of the country back to the Vietnamese.

• Tet Offensive
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Domino Theory
• Vietnamization

Vietcong launch a massive attack on South Vietnamese cities on the Chinese New Year in 1968.  This was a battlefield victory for the American military, but a strategic victory for the communists.

• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Chicano Movement
• Tet Offensive
• Blitzkrieg