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| 351551780 | Vietnamization | President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the Vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces | |
| 351551781 | Henry Kissinger | National Security Adviser whom confered with Nixon over the Vietnamization issue. Awarded nobel peace price for helping end Vietnam war and removing American troops. | |
| 351551782 | CREEP | Richard Nixon's committee for re-electing the president. Found to have been engaged in a "dirty tricks" campaign against the democrats in 1972. They raised tens of millions of dollars in campaign funds using unethical means. They were involved in the infamous Watergate cover-up. | |
| 351551783 | Students for a Democratic Society | Founded in 1962, the SDS was a popular college student organization that protested shortcomings in American life, notably racial injustice and the Vietnam War. It led thousands of campus protests before it split apart at the end of the 1960s. | |
| 351551784 | Port Huron Manifesto | Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, which criticized the federal government for racial inequality, poverty, and also the Cold War and international peace. | |
| 351551785 | OPEC oil embargo | 1973 Arab's cut of oil supply to US and other parts of world as punishment for US helping the Israelites, Caused worldwide oil shortage and long lines at gas stations in the US. | |
| 351551786 | Tet offensive | (LBJ) , 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment | |
| 351551787 | Detente | A lessening of tensions between U.S. and Soviet Union. Besides disarming missiles to insure a lasting peace between superpowers, Nixon pressed for trade relations and a limited military budget. The public did not approve. | |
| 351551788 | Nixon Doctrine | Created during the Vietnam War, It stated that the United States would honor its existing defense commitments in Vietnam, but in the future other countries would have to fight their own wars without relying on the support of American troops. They would only aid, not do all the fighting | |
| 351551789 | Paris Accords | 1973 peace agreement between the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War. | |
| 351551790 | Pentagon Papers | Secret U.S. government report detailing early planning and policy decisions regarding the Vietnam War under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Leaked to the New York Times in 1971, it revealed instances of governmental secrecy, lies, and incompetence in the prosecution of the war. | |
| 351551791 | George McGovern | A Senator from South Dakota who ran for President in 1972 on the Democrat ticket. His promise was to pull the remaining American troops out of Vietnam in ninety days which earned him the support of the Anti-war party, and the working-class supported him, also. He lost however to Nixon. | |
| 351551792 | Eugene McCarthy | In the 1968 presidential election, he was the first candidate to challenge incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, running on an anti-Vietnam War platform; the unexpected degree of success he achieved in the New Hampshire primary led Johnson to withdraw from the race, and brought Robert F. Kennedy into the contest. He would unsuccessfully seek the presidency five times altogether. | |
| 351551793 | Woodstock | 3 day music festival in New York; made up of anti-war young people | |
| 351551794 | White House Plumbers | Name given to the special investigations committee established along with CREEP in 1971. Its job was to stop the leaking of confidential information to the public and press. Broke into watergate. |
