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HIST 203, Week 7, Key Terms1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate was the first to be televised The Great Society The Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (legislative cornerstone of the War on Poverty) The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Medicare and Medicaid, 1965 National Welfare Rights Organization The New Left Students for a Democratic Society, founded 1960 Young Americans for Freedom, founded 1960 domino theory Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh Republic of Vietnam, established 1949 first and second Vietnam wars (first was against France, 1946-1954; second was against the United States) National Liberation Front (NLF), formed 1960 VC or Vietnamese Communists (“Vietcong”) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 1964 “Rolling Thunder”: bombing campaign against North Vietnam, 1965-1968 credibility gap Tet Offensive, January 1968 Pentagon Papers student draft deferments Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations |