JOHNSON
PRERANA RAMADURGUM
PRESIDENCY and ELECTION
- Became president after JFK's assassination
- Gave an address as soon as he came back to Washington
DEMOCRATIC
- Ran against Barry Goldwater
- Won my large majority in nation as well as electoral college
THE GREAT SOCIETY
- Ended in an attempt to achieve domestic reforms
- Equal Economic Opportunity Act gave African Americans equal opportunity in acquiring jobs
- Medicare was reduced the help the elderly and poor
- Project Head a Start focused on youth education
24TH AMENDMENT
- against racial discrimination and enforced civil rights
- Passed 1964 January
- Abolished the poll tax political elections
- Caused tension among Republicans and the more discriminatory parts of America
TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION
- Signed after US ships were attacked by northern Vietnam
- Planes sent over by Johnson
- Resolution let US become more involved in the Vietnam War
VIETNAM WAR
- Johnson had to go ahead and involve himself as Kennedy already had
- In OPERATION BARREL ROLL, Laos lost supplies when the supply lines were hit
- Mayflower bombing sanction
- Students protested the war
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution increased US involvement
CIVIL RIGHTS
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Job discrimination ended
- Employment discrimination based on race, religion, and sex was abolished
- Voting Rights Act of 1964 was to end racial discrimination for voting
- Was actually successful and enforced
WATERSHED YEAR
- 1968
- Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated
- Kennedy was assassinated
- Nixon wins by small margin
- Women fight for rights in all matters
- Riots in DC
- Vietnam War intensifies and students protest it