Lyndon B. Johnson
Becoming President
- Vice President
- Sworn in after assassination of Kennedy
- 1964 Election
- Democrat
- Johnson vs Goldwater
- 486 to 52 Electoral votes
The Great Society
- Domestic Programs
- Combat poverty
- Minorities
- Equal employment opportunity commission
- No racial injustice
- Economic opportunity
- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
24th Amendment
- Illegal poll tax
- Elections tax free
- Taxed voting prohibited
Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the Vietnam War
- 1964
- Military force
- No declaration of War
- Escalated warfare
- Negative citizen backlash
- "futile war"
Johnson's Civil Rights Acts
- Civil Rights Act of 1964- Outlawed Segregation
- -No discrimination on race, religion, sex, nationality, etc
- March on Washington
- Voting Rights Act of 1965- discrimination in voting prohibited
1968
- Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
- Robert Kennedy assassinated
- Protests against Vietnam War
- Nixon elected
- Civil Rights Movement
- U.S. circled the moon