US History › Section O · The 1960s and 1970s › Topic O.2
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Lyndon Johnson used the shock of Kennedy's death and his own skill with Congress to pass the largest burst of reform since the New Deal, from Medicare to the Voting Rights Act. At the same time he took the United States into a full-scale war in Vietnam, which drained money, trust and support from his domestic plans.
In this topic
- From Kennedy's agenda to Johnson's
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965
- The war on poverty
- Medicare, Medicaid and education
- Reshaping national life
- Worked example: reading the poverty figures
- The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Worked example: weighing the Tonkin evidence
- Escalation and Tet
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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