4Final- LBJ Flashcards
Years LBJ
1963-1968
Finish JFK
Then reelected
LBJ becomes president because
JFK assassination
LBJ policy name
Great society
great society is a plan to:
Aid the poor
Vp
HHH
War on poverty does what?
Reduced poverty rate for 15 years
Medicare
Health care for elderly and poor
Civil rights act 1964,65
Voting housing employment education
Golf of Tonkin
1964 Lie to congress and public to get full military control
Vietnam public reaction
Huge protests “make love not war”
tet offensive
1968 Vietnamese lunar new year attacks on 50+ US troops
LBJ reaction to public and congress finding out lies
Declines to run again
MLK JR assassinated when
April 1968 by James earl Ray
Robert F Kennedy assassination
June 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan
Democratic convention where and what
Chicago police riot