Lyndon Johnson
Johnson was the third consecutive president to enter the Oval Office without this kind of experience.
What is business?
This group staged sit-ins across the South to protest the unfair treatment of blacks and to call for the same market rights that whites employed.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
On Christmas Eve 1964, they bombed a hotel in Saigon that quartered American junior officers, killing 2 and wounding 38.
What is the Viet Cong?
Johnson created this in order to quell fears among citizens that the Soviets or Cubans had assassinated the president.
What is the Warren Commission?
This organization instituted freedom rides in 1961 the chllenge segregated interstate bus terminals.
What is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?
The name of the bombing campaign initiated by Johnson to try to show North Vietnam the power of the US and intimidate them into surrender.
What is operation Rolling Thunder?
The name of Johnson's wife.
What is Lady Bird?
This small, Baptist college in Virginia opened its doors to blacks not under government edict, but under financial pressure.
What is Averett College?
These men picked the targets for Operation Rolling Thunder rather than the military personnel/
Who are McNamara and Johnson?
The name of the anti-poverty proposals that Johnson pushed through Congress.
What is the 'Great Society'?
This effectively 'reenslaved' many poor and minorities into a web of government dependency.
What is Johnson's 'War on Povery' and the 'legislative blitzkreig' over the next two decdes after the Civil Rights Act was passed?
This offensive was touted as a victory for the North, but in reality was more of a victory for the United States.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Johnson used his 're-election mandate' to quickly push through these types of legislation.
What are construction legislation, education bills, expansion of urban mass transit, and many other pork-barrel measures, in addition to the needed and important Civil Rights Acts of 1964?
This was the most destructive of all the Great Society policies.
What is the change to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program to include any household with no male present?
The media played a role in giving the average American this view of the Vietnam War and the US Armed forces.
What is the news media?