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US History
Chapters 23/24
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History
11th Grade
05/22/2011

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Detroit
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worst urban riot...43 people died
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Tet offensive
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60k vietcong launched massive offensive against key southern cities
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watts district of los angeles in 1965
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where urban riots began
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radical youth
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late 1960s one half of us population under 25
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counter culture
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60s youth movement
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hippie movement
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popular expression of counter culture
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counter culture
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rejected traditional morals and values...embraced love and sharing
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music
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popular method of bringing youth together
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woodstock rock festival in NY
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gathered 400k ppl for 3 days...showed how young ppl could work together
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1968 mlk and robert kennedy
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their assassination
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after johnson's presidency
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nixon
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inflation spread bc...
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of high spending in vietnam and in the great society
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new economic policy goal
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decrease inflation
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to decrease inflation
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90 days freeze on all wages and prices. organized wage and price increase
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vietnamization
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nixon began reducing american forces in vietnam and training s. vietnam forces to take over
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my lai massacre
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300 unarmed civilians killed by us troops
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kent state protest
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4 students killed in anti war protest
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pentagon papers
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showed blunders of the kennedy and johnson administrations in the war
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1973
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us pulled troops out of vietnam
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dallas texas 1963
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j f. kennedy shot and killed
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johnson
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took over when kennedy was killed
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great society
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government would help all citizens have the opportunity to better themselves socially, politcally, and economically
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medicare
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government health insurance program for elderly people
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judicial activism
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judges interpreting the law broadly to address social problems
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gulf on tonkin incident
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american destroyer repelled an attack by a N vietnamese patrol boat
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truman
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containment
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eisenhower
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2000 advisors
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kennedy
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16k
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johnson
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500k troops
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vietnam was difficult because...
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1. no clear cut conflict between north and south. americans fought n and vietcong 2. communist well supplied from allies. 3. s vietnam gov corrupt 4. johnson waged a limited war
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