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chapter 29 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - He was a man that believed in using power, and he gained more support for New Frontier proposals.
        
        Johnson gets relected again in 1964.
        
        Johnson would create the Medicare program that would provide federal aid to the elderly for medical expenses.
        
        Johnson would also create the Medicaid program, which extended federal medical assistance to welfare recipients and other indigent people of all ages.
        
        Johnson wanted to assault poverty and the OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY or (OEO) would create an array of new educational employment, housing, and health-care programs. But it commited to the idea of COMMUNITY ACTION.
        
        Community action was an effort to envolve members of poor communities in planning and administration of the programs designed to help them. This would fail because of administrative failures, agencies excesses, and the money needed to fund them would decrease which would damage the idea of Community Action.
        
        The Housing Act 0f 1961 offered $4.9 Billion in federal grants to cities for the preservation of open spaces, the development of mass-transit systems, and the subsidization of middle-income housing.
        He created the DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
        and created the MODEL CITIES PROGRAM which offered federal subsidies for urban redevelopment pilot programs.
        
        Johnson would create the ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 which was a series of measures that woud give money to schools based on the economic conditions of the studnets. Would also give money to parochial schools.
        
        Johnson would also create the Immigration Act of 1965, whihc maintained strict limit on the number of newcomers admitted to the country each year (170,000) It also eliminated the national origins system.
        Restricred immigration from some parts of Latin America, but it allowed people from all parts of Europe, Asia, and AFrica to enter the United States on an equal basis. A lot of Asiains came in the 1970s.
      - Johnson also created the "GREAT SOCIETY" which was a reform program of his own.
  - - - The Gulf of Tonkin was supposedly attacked by North Vietnam which prompted Johnson to pass the GOLF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION which showed that they were going to escalate the situation.
        
        Nguyen Van Theiu became the new leader of the South Vietnam.
        
        America wanted to battle the North out, but they were willing to put in a lot of effort.
        
        Another strategy was the "Pacification" which was to try to win the heart of the opposition after taking out North Vietnam. Didn't work because American forces didn't really know how to do that.
        
        The U.S. would then have to rely on defeating Viet Cong and then forcing people to migrate and become refugees.
        
        There was an inflation in the U.S. during the Vietnam war
  - - - Robert formed the Kennedy legacy which would become central to American liberalism.
      - Nixon won 1964 election, by promoting stabalization.