Vietnam War 60's Cold War

This amendment lowered the required age to vote from 21 to 18 years of age.

• 26th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 25th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

Large scale offensive organized by the North Vietnamese forces that made the American public doubt the government and that we were winning the war.

• Tet Offensive
• Deterrent
• Gulf of Tonkin
• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Republican candidate who won the election in 1968. Believed in Vietnamization and "Peace with Honor".

• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Richard Nixon
• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Democratic candidate who won the election of 1964 in a landslide victory. Launched his Great Society legislation; expanding on Civil Rights, New Deal legislation, and tackling poverty.

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• John F. Kennedy
• Richard Nixon
• Harry S. Truman

The difference between what was told to the American public by the government about Vietnam and what was being reported to the public by the media.

• Credibility Gap
• Silent Majority
• Brinkmanship
• Pentagon Papers

Nixon used this term stating that many Americans still supported the war but were not as vocal as the protesters in the Anti-War Movement.

• Silent Majority
• Credibility Gap
• Pentagon Papers
• Deterrent

Movement that protested the war in Vietnam and the expansion of the war into Cambodia.

• Anti-War Movement
• Hawks
• Yellow Journalism
• Peace and Prosperity Movement

Republican candidate who ran against Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Lost by a wide margin; wanted to take an aggressive and hard stance against Soviet Russia.

• Barry Goldwater
• Gerald Ford
• Richard Nixon
• Robert McNamara

Theory that stated that if one nation fell to communism then other surrounding nations would also fall to communism.

• Domino Theory
• Surrounding Country Theory
• Border Theory
• Jinga Theory

This event marked the end of the Vietnam war. Took place two years after the US forces left Vietnam.

• Fall of Saigon
• Fall of the Gulf of Tonkin
• Operation Overlord
• Red Scare