Great Society
This program provided health insurance for Americans over 65, funded by a tax on employee and employer earnings
What is Medicare?
This resolution gave the president the power to use military force in Vietnam without formally declaring war
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Johnson witnessed poverty firsthand as a teacher in this Texas town, convincing him that educational inequality must be tackled
What is Cotulla?
This 1968 North Vietnamese attack was a military victory for the US but a major psychological defeat
What is the Tet Offensive?
This 1964 act created a joint federal-state system where states determined eligibility and distributed stamps to low-income families
What is the Food Stamp Act?
LBJ announced he would not seek reelection after meeting with these senior advisors who told him Vietnam was unwinnable
What is the Wise Men?
This radical provision of the EOA allowed federal money to bypass state and local governments entirely, funding private and nonprofit organizations directly
What is the Community Action Program?
This US bombing campaign from 1965-1968 was the largest of the war but ultimately considered a failure, only damaging infrastructure and delaying supply lines
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
Between 1965 and 1968 federal spending on the poor doubled from $6 billion to $12 billion — by 1974 it had reached this amount
What is $24.5 billion?
This soldier was convicted of war crimes for the My Lai Massacre but had his life sentence reduced to just this amount of time
What is 3 months house arrest?