Chapter 29 - Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965-1985

President Lyndon Johnson

________ decided to launch bombing raids on the north and to send U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam to prevent a total defeat of the anti- Communist government in Saigon and keep the Communist regime of the north from uniting the entire country under its control.

Cuban Missile crisis

The ________ had lessened the tensions of the cold war, but in another year the US was fighting the Vietnam War.

strong anti war

In the late 1960s, the western world was filled with many movements relating to sexual mores, education, women's rights, and ________ movements.

Richard Nixon

In 1913 ________ was elected president in 1968 and he ended American involvement in Vietnam by 1973 by gradually withdrawing American troops.

Sex education

________ in the schools and the decriminalization of homosexuality were but two aspects of Swedens liberal legislation.