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| 151615778 | Robert McNamara | American Secretary of Defense from 1961-1968. He oversaw the general strategy of the military and the Vietnam War. | |
| 151615779 | Nikita Krushchev | Leader of the Soviet union during the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He and President Kennedy signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, temporarily easing Cold War tensions. Also leader of USSR after Stalin. | |
| 151615780 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba | |
| 151615781 | Bay of Pigs | (JFK) , In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion ended in disaster. | |
| 151615782 | Apollo Program | a program of space flights undertaken by US to land a man on the moon | |
| 151615783 | John Glenn | made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962 | |
| 151615784 | Neil Armstrong | 1st person to walk on the moon; U.S. Apollo 11; July, 1969; his famous words - "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." | |
| 151615785 | Edwin Aldrin Jr. | 2nd person to walk on the moon; U.S. Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong | |
| 151615786 | Berlin Wall | a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West | |
| 151615787 | Alliance for Progress | JFK 1961, a program in which the United States tried to help Latin American countries overcome poverty and other problems, money used to aid big business and the military | |
| 151615788 | Agency for International Development | Independent agency responsible for administering most US government foreign aid, under direction of Secretary of State | |
| 151615789 | Peace Corps | Volunteers who help third world nations and prevent the spread of communism by getting rid of poverty, Africa, Asia, and Latin America | |
| 151615790 | Green Berets | the military branch created by JFK to be able to wage counter-insurgency campaigns | |
| 151615791 | Cuban Missile Crisis | the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba | |
| 151615792 | Maxwell Taylor | United States Army general and diplomat that recommended 8,000 American combat troops be sent to Vietnam | |
| 151615793 | Vietcong | the guerrilla soldiers of the Communist faction in Vietnam, also know as the National Liberation Front | |
| 151615794 | ARVN | Army of the Republic of South Vietnam | |
| 151615795 | National Liberation Front | Ho Chi Minh wanted to unite Vietnam under Northern rule and aided a group of communist rebels trying to overthrow Diem in the south. Official title of the Vietcong. Created in 1960, they lead an uprising against Diem's repressive regime in the South. | |
| 151615796 | Ho Chi Minh Trail | A network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War. | |
| 151615797 | Napalm | Highly flammable chemical dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War. | |
| 151615798 | Operation Rolling Thunder | a strategy of gradually intensified bombing of North Vietnam, began in February 1965. Less than a month later, Johnson ordered the first US combat troops to South Vietnam, and in July he shifted US troops from defensive to offensive operations, dispatching 50,000 more soldiers. | |
| 151615799 | Panama Canal Zone | a zone consisting of a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama that contains the Panama Canal. Riots during the Vietnam War | |
| 151615800 | Yankee Imperialism | after winning the Spanish American war, American's flooded Cuba with American capital and investers, making it an American economic appendage as they went into Cuba, buying up plantations, factories, railroads and refineries. Any resistance to this produced revolts against the Cuban government, some prompted U.S. military intervention. | |
| 151615801 | Juan Bosch | He was elected to office in 1961, from the revolutionary party. He was in office for 2 months before being overthrown. | |
| 151615802 | OAS | Organization of American States, an international governmental organization formed by the states of North and South America formed to promote democracy, economic cooperation, and human rights | |
| 151615803 | Agent Orange | a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas | |
| 151615804 | Americanized Vietnam War | America took over in the war in Vietnam, sending over troops and technology. | |
| 151615805 | William Westmoreland | American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968 | |
| 151615806 | Living Room War | How Americans were able to watch the Vietnam War on television and see its effects and destruction first hand | |
| 151615807 | SDS | Students for a Democratic Society, a student organization that organized a march on Washington D.C. | |
| 151615808 | Draftees/Those Who Avoided Draft | Privileged white boys went to college to avoid getting drafted by the Vietnam War, and African Americans enlisted to avoid low-paying commercial jobs in America. | |
| 151615809 | Hawks | Americans who supported the Vietnam War and believed U.S. should release all of its fury in Vietnam | |
| 151615810 | Doves | Those who strongly opposed the Vietnam War and believed the US should pull out all troops. | |
| 151615811 | Dean Acheson | He was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949-1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. | |
| 151615812 | Tet Offensive | 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 | |
| 151615813 | Shiran Shiran | Palestine Arab, assassinated Senator Robert Kennedy for his support of Israel | |
| 151615814 | Campus Demonstrations | Student protests against the Vietnam War | |
| 151615815 | Kent State and Jackson State | Police fired shots at peaceful protesters standing against the Vietnam War | |
| 151615816 | Democratic Party Convention | Riots and a major party split, VP Hubert Humphrey took the nomination | |
| 151615817 | Election of 1968 | Former VP Richard Nixon (Republican), George C. Wallace (American Independent), and current VP Hubert Humphrey (Democratic). Nixon won. | |
| 151615818 | Henry Kissinger | The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency (1970s). | |
| 151615819 | Vietnamization of the War | Give the war back to SVN, decrease in US involvement, extended the war into Cambodia in 1970 | |
| 151615820 | Cambodia | Became involved in the war when Nixon ordered raids of the nation to eliminate communist camps there | |
| 151615821 | William Calley | American army officer who ordered the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, murdering hundreds of elderly, women, and children | |
| 151615822 | Pentagon Papers | A 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War. | |
| 151615823 | Daniel Ellsberg | a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. | |
| 151615824 | Ho Chi Minh City | New name of Saigon, after Communism in N. Vietnam took over S. Vietnam, after the United States pulled out of the war | |
| 151615825 | Evacuation of Saigon | The United States got all of its citizens out of the city, along with a few Southern Vietnamese. However, the U.S. lacked proper transport and had to leave many Southern Vietnamese behind. | |
| 151615826 | War Powers Act 1973 | Gave any president the power to go to war under certain circumstances, but required that he could only do so for 90 days before being required to officially bring the matter before Congress. | |
| 151615827 | Vietnam Veterans Memorial | A huge wall of black granite in Washington, D.C., that is inscribed with the names of the more than 58,000 Americans who died in Vietnam | |
| 151615828 | Richard Nixon | Elected to be US President after Johnson decided to not to run again, promised peace with honor in Vietnam and to withdraw American soliders from South Vietnam | |
| 151615829 | Gerald Ford | President 1974-77, Nixon's Vice president, only person not voted into the White House, appointed vice president by Nixon: became president after Nixon resigned |
