Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnsons Presidency
When
- November, 22 1963
- After Kennedy's assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald
What Party
- Democratic
Running Candidates
- Barry Goldwater- Republican
How close was the race
- LBJ won by a massive margin
- Electoral vote-486
- States carried-45
- Popular vote-43,127,041
- Percentage-61.1%
The Great Society
- A set of domestic reforms
- Promoted and passed by LBJ
- Democrats in the Senate
- Biggest domestic reform since the New Deal
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Forbade segregation
Tonkin Gulf resolution
- Joint resolution
- US congress
- Response to the Tokin Gulf Incident
- Allowed LBJ to use conventional military force without the declaration of war
Vietnam War
- Johnson joins war
- US joins to stop spread of Communism
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- Earliest campaigns of the war
- November 2, 1965 to March 2, 1968
- Tet Offensive
- Mass casualties.
Civil rights act 1964
- Forbade segregation
- passed to protect the voters rights
- Height of the Civil Rights movement
Watershed Year 1968
- January 1968
- Viet Cong attacked 26 key S.V. cities
- American public demands war ends
- March 31st LBJ freezes troops and reduces numbers
- June 5th Kennedy assassinated
- Assassination of MLK Jr.