The great society
- Elementary and secondary Education Act of 1965- for the first time, large amounts of fedral money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools.
- Higher education act of 1965, which focused on funding lower income students, including grants, work-study money and goverment loans.
- Set up the National Enddowmnet for the Humanitess and the national endownment for the arts.
- Gun control act of 1968 regulates the fire arms indusrty and fire arms owners.
Jonson and veitnam
- The vietnam conflict dominated much of jonsons presidency
- Belived in Donmino Theory
- Gulf of tonkin Resoultion (1964) Congress gave Johnson power to wage war in Vietnm as he saw fit.
President Nixon
- Vice president of Eisenhower
- Lost 1960 election to JFK
- The only person to be elected twice to both the presidency and the vice presidency
- The only president to resign from office
- Watergate headquarters of demacatic partys
Nixon Acomplisments
- Vietnam Conflict dominated much of his presidency-war became very unpopular
- promised to end the war
- expaned the war to cambodia and laosbombing Ho Chi Minh 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
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