Social Studies Vocabulary
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- Leon Jaworski
- Special Prosecutor 2, demands tapes
- Vietminh
- Communist group led by Ho Chi Minh
- Warsaw Pact
- Alliance in Eastern Europe of Communist nations
- Pas-de-Calais
- The beach on the Dover Strait where Nazis thought US whould attack. The US put decoys there to throw off the Germans.
- Manchuria
- Resource rich province in China taken over by Japan
- Yalta
- Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin to plan the post-war world
- Foothold
- What the Allies needed in order to continue attacking. (Used Normandy in France
- Fat Man
- Code name for the second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki August 9 1945
- Robert McNamara
- LBJ's Secretary of Defense
- Frank Willis
- Watergate hotel guard
- Ho Chi Minh Trail
- network of jungle paths where North Vietnam sent arms and supplies through Cambodia and Laos to South Vietnam
- Hawks
- war supporters nickname
- Gerald Ford
- Congressman that replaces Agnew as VP then Nixon as president
- Operation Overlord
- The code name for the beginning plans of D-day and the invasion of France's coast
- USSR
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that issued a one-party rule
- George Kennan
- sent long telegram
- domino theory
- Eisenhower's theory that if Vietnam fell to Communism so would all the other SE Asian countries
- Westmoreland
- general who falsely reported that the enemy was on the brink of defeat during Vietnam
- Marshall Plan
- Recovery plan to give European economies US aid in order rebuild Western Europe
- Senate's Select Committee
- Led by Sam J Ervin and investigates Watergate cover-up
- Internment Camps
- Location "approved" by US Government for American-Japanese to live and work
- Omar Bradley
- Commander of Omaha Beach on D-Day
- James McCord
- ex-CIA member of CRP. Worked as a "plumber" in the Watergate break-in
- Washington Post
- Newspaper that first reported about the Watergate Scandal
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A mutual defense alliance in Western Europe.
- D-Day
- June 6, 1944. The day when US invaded Normandy
- Chiang Kai-shek
- corrupt leader of nationalist party in China
- RIchard Nixon
- President elected in 1968 and 1972. Resigned June 23, 1972
- Fascism
- Kind of aggressive nationalism where people believed the nation is greater than the individual and believed in expanding the nation.
- federal Campaign Act Amendments
- Amendments that limited campaign contributions and established an independent agency to administer stricter election laws
- John Dean
- One of the heads of CRP that resigns and then testified against other CRP people including John Mitchell and Richard Nixon
- Sudetenland
- Largely German populateed region in Czechoslovakia taken by Hitler and Nazi's
- Watergate Break-In
- 4 Cubans and James McCord break into the DNC
- Agent Orange
- Used to strip leaves from trees and shrubs in the Vietnam jungle
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Corrupt leader of South Vietnam
- "Mein Kampf"
- book written in jail by Adolf Hitler
- Dean Acheson
- Truman's adviser who proposed first show of force involving the Truman Doctrine
- SDS
- Students for a Democratic Society
- napalm
- jellied gasoline that explodes on contact
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- authorized LBJ to take all necessary measures to repel armed attack in Vietnam
- Adolf Hitler
- Led Nazi party in Germany and believed in nationalism and that blue eyed blonde hairwed people were best. Persecuted Jews.
- 442nd Regiment
- An Asian American unit comprised of mostly Japanese-Americans
- Long Telegram
- a telegram sent from George Kennan to the USSR outlining the policy of containment
- Ho Chi Minh
- communist leader of Vietminh
- V-J Day
- August 14 1945. The day Japan surrendered to the US and WWII ended
- Teach In
- Informal meetings at universities across the US to discuss issues and the Vietnam war
- Blackshirts
- Mussolini's "gang" used to control Italy
- DNC
- Democratic National Committee
- Bob Woodward
- Young reporter for the Washington Post
- Executive privilege
- claim made by a president to withold information for the good of the country
- Doves
- Peace supporters nickname
- Appeasement
- concessions for peace. Giving Hitler what he wants in order to get peace however it didn't work
- Credibility Gap
- The result that happened because during the LBJ Administration it was hard for US citizens to believe what the government was telling them because of false reports and not telling the whole story.
- Geneva Accords
- Decided Vietnam would be divided at the 17th parallel, there would be free elections, Ho Chi MInh and Ngo Dinh Diem would lead North and South, and it acknowledged Cambodia as independent
- Enola Gay
- The plane that dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima August 6 1945
- Truman Doctrine
- policy to help free people/nations who are resisting outside pressures to become Communist.
- containment
- keeping communism within its present territory through use of diplomatic, economic, or military action
- Judge Sirica
- Judge in charge of the burglary trial
- "Saturday Night Massacre"
- Press's nickname for the night Elliot Richardson and other resigned and Archibald Cox was fired
- Vietcong
- Communist guerilla army in South Vietnam
- Elliot Richardson
- Attorney General that resigned instead of firing Cox
- enemies list
- people Nixon had something against or had done something to him
- Declaration of Liberated Europe
- gave European people opportunity to choose which form of government under which they wish to live
- Dien Bien Phu
- battle between French and Vietminh over control of the city
- Benito Mussolini
- Dictator of Italy
- Spiro Agnew
- VP that resigned due to accepting bribes
- Alexander Butterfield
- White House aid that revealed existence of tapes
- Joseph Stalin
- Led Communist party in the USSR as a dictator
- Postdam Conference
- Meeting between Truman and Stalin to work out what to do with Germany after WWII
- Archibald Cox
- Special Prosecutor 1 that demanded tapes
- Storm Troopers
- Hitler's "gang" also known as Brownshirts used to gain power in Germany
- Manhattan Project
- Project to develop the first nuclear bomb. Tested in July 1945
- Robert Bork
- Fires Cox, Solcitor General
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- Bombing Campaign against North Vietnam
- Embargo
- Restriction of assets
- Little Boy
- Code name for the first nuclear bomb dropped in Hiroshima on Agust 6 1945
- CRP
- Committee for the re-election of the president headed by John Mitchell. Handled everything to get Nixon re-elected including hiring "plumbers".
- Strategic Materials
- Goods allowed to be restricted from enemy in war. Restricted oil from Japanese.
- Nazi Party
- nationalist party led by Adolf Hitler
- Strategic Hamlets
- Kennedy's idea. Fortified villages for citizens of South Vietnam in order to stop support of Vietcong and provide safety
- Satellite Nations
- Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control
- Impeach
- to force a president out of office
- "Iron Curtain"
- dividing line that separated Europe into two sides. Western Europe was non-communist and Eastern Europe was communist.
- Nonaggression Pact
- Agreement made between USSR and Germany that there would be no attacks between them
- Sam J Ervin
- NC Senator that headed the Senate's Select Committee
- Omaha Beach
- One of 5 beaches invaded during WWII D-Day. Biggest struggle because of deep water, little to no cover, and bluffs with Germans and machine guns
- Mao Zedong
- leader of Communist forces in China
- Carl Bernstein
- Young reporter for the Washington Post