Today we talked a little bit about the blogs that were going to be due. Then we talked about the powerpoint and the presidents agian.
Johnson (cont.)
The Great Society
-Elementry and Secondary Education Act of 1965--For the first time large amounts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools
-Higher education act of 1965 focused on lower income students, including grants, work-study money, and government loans
-Gun conrtoll act of 1968 regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners. passed in response to the assasinations on JFK, RFK and MLK.
Johnson of Vietnam
-The vietnam Conflict dominated much of Johnson's presidency
-Believed in Domino Thoery
-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution- Congres gave Johnson power to wage war in Vietnam as he saw fit
1968 election
-Johnson decided not to run for another term
Richard Nixon
-vice pres. of Eisenhower
-lost the 1960 election to JFK
-the only person to be elected twice to both the presidency and the vice presidency
-Only president to resign from office
Accomplishments
-Vietnam Conflict dominated much of his presidency-war became very umpopular
-promised to end war- "Peace with honor"
-Expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos- bombing Ho Chi Mihn Trail
-Started pulling troops out of Vietnam as promised
-The Nixon Doctrine- "Vietnamization of the war"
-Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and got the US out of the war.
Environmental policy
-National Environmental Policy Act
-Clean Air act of 1970
-Federal Water Pollution act
-Established many government agencies
-Council of Environmental Quality
-Declared War on drugs
-Saw large scale integration fo schools in the schools in the south
-Supported affirmative action
-Signed Title 9 prohibited gender discrimination in all federally funded school
-Equal Employment Opprotunity act-enforces laws agianst workplace discrimination
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