We started by finding out that we muost likely won't have to start our Cold War project until Tuesday. Whoo! Gives me more time to start doing it. :p Then we started back with talking about Johnson.
Johnson had "The Great Society, similar to the New Deal. He wanted to: aid education, attack disease, Medicare and Medicaid, urban renewal, conservation of depressed regions, war on poverty, control and prevention of crime, removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
-Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965- large amounts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools.
-Higher Education Act of 19650 focosud on funding lower income students, including grants, work study money, and government loans.
-Set up the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
-Economic Opportunity Act helped start Head Start, food stams, Work Study, and Medicare and Medicaid.
-Gun Control Act of 1968- regulated firears, passed in the response of the assassinations of MLK, and JFK.
The vietnam conflict dominated much of Jonson's presidency, Believed in Domino Theory which was if one country falls others are going to fall.
-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution(1964)-Congress gave Johnson power to wage war in Vietnam as he saw fit.
*I then did my blog discussion on Nixon
Nixo was the only president to resign from office, and the only president to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. He had a lot of haterzzz. :p Nixon had a lot of Accomplishments. Vietname Conflict dominated most of his presidency.. He promised to end the war, but instead extended it.
He was the enviromental president. He created the National Environmental Policy Act. The Clean Air Act of 1970, Federal water Pollution Control Act, Established many government agencies: 1. Environmental Protection Agency, 2. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 3. Council on Environmental Equality.
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