For march 7
NANO-ck
Mise-à-jour le 25 March 2024, 2 minutes de lecture
Ressources
To what extent was LBJ’s presidency
Can talk about
Pentagon papers
- 1971
- Leaked by Daniel Ellsberg
- Showed that the US government had been lying to the public about the Vietnam war
LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson)
- Presidency started in 1963
- Ended in 1969
- Use federal power to have a great society
Great Society
- NEED TO MENTION IT
- War on poverty
- Civil rights
- Education
- Medicare
Vietnam war
- 1964-1973
- Gulf of Tonkin incident
- US ships were attacked by the North Vietnamese
- LBJ asked for a resolution to use military force
- Congress gave him the power to do so
- US involvement
- LBJ’s role
- He escalated the war
- He was the one who asked for the resolution
- The war was a disaster
- 58 000 US soldiers died
- 2M Vietnamese died
- The US lost the war
| Success | Failure |
|---|---|
| Civil rights | Vietnam war (impact in the US) |
| - Civil Rights Act | - Escalation of the war |
| - Voting Rights Act | - 58 000 US soldiers died |
| - Fair Housing Act | - Impact in the US |
| Great society - War on poverty | Outbreaks of riots |
| - Medicare | - LA Watts 1965 / Detroit => inner city |
| - Education | Violence |
| - Medicaid | Student protests |
| - Head Start | - Kent State 1970 |
| - Food stamps | - 4 students killed by the National Guard |
| - Job Corps | - 9 wounded |
Presidents
- 70s - Nickson
- 80s - Reagan
- 90s - Clinton
Plan : 1968
- The year that went too far
- Or not far enough ?
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