Johnson-
- Great Society
- johnson's plan to help out the needy people; war on poverty
- ACTS
- Elementary and Secondary Education- large amounts of federal money starts going into school
- Higher Education- tried funding lower income students, including ggrants, work-study money, and govt loans
- Economic Opportunity Act- halped start Head Start, food stamps, Work Study, medicare and medicaid
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Gun Control- regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners
- in response to all the assassination
- Vietnam War
- made Vietnam conflict very important
- believed in Domino Theory- if a county gets taken over by communists then other countries will fall too
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution- gave Johnson all the power to wage war in Vietnam
NIxon
- vice pres of eisenhower
- lost 1960 election to kennedy (barely)
- only person to be elected twice to pres and vice pres
- only pres to resign
- vietnam war became very unpopular
- nixon promised to end the war
- actually expanded the war to cambodia and laos
- then started pulling troops out of vietnam like he promised
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