chapter 15 Vietnam era

equal opportunity in education act

• required schools and universities to stop discrimination against women

• required schools and universities to stop discrimination against black people

civil rights act

• prohibited discrimination by race color religion or sex

• made racism illegal

Roe vs Wade

• upheld right to abortion in the first three months

• banned abortion

commission on the status of women

• showed widespread gender discrimination

• showed why women should not vote

The feminine mystique

• voiced resentment of many educated middle class women

• a group of women who worked as spies in world war two

ho chi minh

• led a nationalist movement and declared vietnam to be independent

• supported french union and colonization of vietnam

guerilla warfare

• fighting in the wilderness using ambush attacks aids and hit nad run tactics

• organized battle tactics lined up by the thousands and march

domino theory

• the theory that if on country fell to communism then al countries around it would fall to communism

• if you get double sixes in dominos you should win the game

gulf on tonkin resolution

• gave the president power to do war actions without declaring war

• limiited power of the president similar to the war powers act

new frontier

• a slogan used by kennedy to describe the challengesfacing the united states in the 1960s

• a group of social programs hat helped us get out of the depression that followed world war two