Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - After reported attacks against U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress issued this resolution in 1964, which allowed the president to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war., Cuban Missile Crisis - For nearly two weeks during JFK's presidency, the Soviet Union refused to respond to demands to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. This brought the two countries to the brink of nuclear war., War on Poverty - President Johnson's set of programs for ending poverty in the United States, Great Society - LBJ's civil rights and antipoverty agenda were collectively referred to as this., Credibility Gap - During the Vietnam War, many Americans came to doubt official reports by U.S. official about progress in the war, Domino Theory - An idea first promoted by President Eisenhower, this idea held that if Vietnam fell to communism, other countries in Southeast Asia would also fall to communism (like a row of dominos), Tet Offensive - In January 1968, on the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet), North Vietnamese and Vietcong (South Vietnamese communist) forces attacked towns and cities across South Vietnam. The massive attack was repelled but it undermined U.S. officials' assertions (confidence) that the enemy was near defeat., Vietnamization - President Nixon's policy to draw down American troops from Vietnam by turning over more of the fighting to the South Vietnamese military, Twenty-Sixth Amendment - Ratified in 1971, set the voting age at eighteen nationwide, War Powers Act - 1973, require that, whenever possible, the president consult with congress before committing troops overseas,

JFK, LBJ, and Vietnam

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