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| 9642885128 | Vietminh | Communists in North Vietnam. Originally were formed to win independence from France. | 0 | |
| 9642885129 | Vietcong | Communist rebel forces made up of Vietnamese that were supplied by North Vietnam Blend with jungle, used Booby traps | 1 | |
| 9642885130 | Ho Chi Minh | The communist leader of North Vietnam | 2 | |
| 9642885131 | Ho Chi Minh Trail | Used by North Vietnam to send arms and supplies south by way of a network of jungle paths | 3 | |
| 9642885132 | Ngo Dinh Diem | The highly unpopular leader of South Vietnam, who was initially supported by the US | 4 | |
| 9642885133 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Gave Johnson a blank check to fight the war in Vietnam. Empowered President Lyndon Johnson to greatly increase U.S. military involvement in Vietnam | 5 | |
| 9642885134 | American Tactics | bombing campaign against the north, called operation Rolling Thunder, massive search and destroy missions to find Vietnamese fighters, decreasing the moral of enemy through a war of attrition. | 6 | |
| 9642885135 | Agent Orange | Used to clear forest vegetation that could hide Viet Cong soldiers. | 7 | |
| 9642885136 | Vietnam Draft | person could avoid be drafted if they went to college, Minorities and low-income people were more likely to be sent to Vietnam, Some people refused to be drafted and fled the country or were arrested. | 8 | |
| 9642885137 | Tet Offensive | New Years eve/day attack on South Vietnam /U.S. It increased the credibility gap between what President Lyndon Johnson said about the Vietnam War and what Americans saw on television | 9 | |
| 9642885138 | My Lai | massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops | 10 | |
| 9642885139 | Invasion of Cambodia | Nixon ordered ,American people angered results in multiple protests in America | 11 | |
| 9642885140 | Vietnamization | Began in 1970. The removal of American troops while replacing them with South Vietnamese troops | 12 | |
| 9642885141 | Domino Theory | If one Nation falls to Communism other countries in close proximity will fall. | 13 | |
| 9642885142 | War Powers Act | America can promise troops to major military operations in foreign countries. Attempt to resolve the problem caused by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 14 | |
| 9642885143 | Credibility Gap | What America sees on TV and what was actually happening or they were being told what is going on in Vietnam. | 15 | |
| 9642885144 | 1968 Democratic Convention | Chicago Anti-war protesters clash/fight police | 16 | |
| 9642885146 | Hippies | Part of the counterculture. Middle Class + White. upset with the way that society was run and how it was dealing with the problems of the time. | 17 | |
| 9642885147 | Kent State | Protest here over the invasion of Cambodia. National Guard troops fired at protesters killing 4 of them. | 18 | |
| 9642885148 | Pentagon Papers | Published in 1971. Exposed the deception that had led the United States into the Vietnam War. | 19 | |
| 9642885149 | Results of Vietnam War | US reluctant to intervene countries problems, MIAs and POWs, Americans saw war as a defeat. , $150 billion spent on war | 20 | |
| 9642885150 | April 1975 | South Vietnam's government falls, ending the long years of the war. | 21 | |
| 9642885151 | Outcome of the War | Strongly effected by public opinion. | 22 | |
| 9642885152 | Battle of Dien Bien Phu | French lose French Indochina War and withdraw from Vietnam | 23 | |
| 9642885153 | S Vietnam Monk purpose of Self-Immolation | Protest discrimination against Buddhists | 24 | |
| 9642885154 | Treatment of Vietnam Veterans returning to USA | Shunned or ignored by the public | 25 | |
| 9642885155 | Martin Luther King's issue with Vietnam War | He believed it was unfair that they were fighting for a country that threatened them unfairly at home. | 26 | |
| 9642885156 | Impact of War on Voting | Lowered the voting age from 21-18 (since 18 yr olds can be drafted) | 27 | |
| 9642885157 | Geneva Accords | Divided Vietnam into North and South at the 17th Parallel | 28 | |
| 9642885158 | Media after Tet Offensive | Began to openly criticize the war | 29 | |
| 9642885159 | Why did the US step in when the French left Vietnam? | To protect the Pro-Westerngovernment in the South | 30 | |
| 9642885160 | Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws | 31 | |
| 9642885161 | Sharecropping | economic slavery, endless cycle of debt and poverty | 32 | |
| 9642885162 | Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, KS | 1954, Unanimous decision to overturn; "separate, but equal"-"inherently unequal", "with all deliberate speed", Precedent, The Warren Court | 33 | |
| 9642885163 | Thurgood Marshall | lawyer in the Brown vs Board of Education; first non-white man in the Supreme Court | 34 | |
| 9642885164 | "White Flight" | whites flee to suburban area as minorities move into inner cities | 35 | |
| 9642885165 | Emmett Till | 14 year old boy visiting his cousins in MS from Chicago; beaten, mutilated, and shot for saying "Bye Baby" to white lady-murders found not guilty in a short trial; murders latter admitted guilt | 36 | |
| 9642885166 | Impact of Television | a new consumer product broadened the impact of the civil rights movement | 37 | |
| 9642885167 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | 381 day bus boycott that started in Montgomery, AL and spread across the country | 38 | |
| 9642885168 | Sit-In movement (Nashville) | College students would sit at the white only counters and nonviolently protest, started in Feb., 1960 in Greensboro, NC, movement spreads all across the country | 39 | |
| 9642885169 | Freedom Rides | 1961-tested their rights of non-segregated interstate travel, traveling from Washington DC through the deep South, nearly beaten to death/KKK fire bombed buses | 40 | |
| 9642885170 | Ole Miss (James Meredith) | decorated US army veteran wanted to attend Ole Miss, riots in the streets, US Marshals came to protest James Meredith; bombs& mobs as he arrives in Oxford, 35 Marshals shot, 2 people died | 41 | |
| 9642885171 | March on Washington | March For Jobs & Freedom Wed. Aug. 28th, 300 thousand people, MLK gives I had a dream speech | 42 | |
| 9642885172 | 24th Amendment | prohibited Congress & the states(TX, AL, VA, MS, AR) from instituting poll taxes | 43 | |
| 9642885173 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | prohibited racial segregation/discrimination in public accommodations | 44 | |
| 9642885174 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | prohibited use literacy test for voter registration | 45 | |
| 9642885175 | poll taxes; literacy texts | used to prevent black people from being able to vote | 46 | |
| 9642885176 | Freedom Summer | civil rights groups went down to Mississippi to register black voters; three activists murdered: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, & Michael Schwerner | 47 | |
| 9642885177 | Malcolm X | "By any means necessary" promoted self defense, converted to the Islamic faith in prison assassinated in February, 1965 | 48 | |
| 9642885178 | March from Selma to Montgomery | for voting rights, register black voters, The Mississippi Summer Project; MS blackest state, but only 4% were registered | 49 | |
| 9642885179 | Black Panthers | social movement group started in 1966; equality, self defense, community based, educated/feed children | 50 |
