7th Grade US History - Chapter 25 - Vocabulary

Israel agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, and Egypt agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, making Egypt the first Arab nation to recognize that right.

• Camp David Accords

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Vietnamization

• Watergate

Authorized President Johnson "to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force" against the North Vietnamese.

• Camp David Accords

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Vietnamization

• Watergate

The United States would gradually turn over responsibility for fighting the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese while continuing to provide supplies and air support.

• Camp David Accords

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Vietnamization

• Watergate

Forbade ethnic segregation and discrimination in schools and public places

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Panama Canal Treaty

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• War Powers Act

A major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 resulting in Nixon's resignation.

• Camp David Accords

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Vietnamization

• Watergate

The United States agreed to transfer control of the canal to Panama by 1999. The US kept the right to intervene with military force if the canal's neutrality was ever threatened.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Panama Canal Treaty

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• War Powers Act

Ended long-standing injustices in federal elections

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Panama Canal Treaty

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• War Powers Act

Defined the circumstances that would be necessary before the president could go to war and required all action be ended in thirty days unless Congress authorized action beyond that.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Panama Canal Treaty

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• War Powers Act

Young people in the 1960s who looked for happiness by throwing off respect for authority and turning to drugs and sexual immorality

• counterculture

• detente

• hawks

• doves

An easing of tensions

• counterculture

• detente

• hawks

• doves