LBJ (Great Society & Vietnam)

Lyndon Johnson's plan for improving America was called the

• New Frontier

• Fair Deal

• Great Society

• New Deal

This law eliminated discrimination in all public places. It was passed in 1964. It was the

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Medical Care Act

This law created job training programs as well as starting the War on Poverty. It passed in 1964. It was called the

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Medical Care Act

• Elementary & Secondary Education Act

• Voting Rights Act

Medicare & Medicaid were created to provide health care to which groups of people?

• black citizens

• elderly & poor

• returning veterans

• school children

LBJ's domestic programs

• put the US into bankruptcy

• were the largest spending on social programs in US history

• kept many Americans from dying

• dropped the US from their status as the leading superpower

LBJ defeated this man for election in 1964.

• George C. Wallace

• Richard Nixon

• Harry Byrd

• Barry Goldwater

The document giving LBJ power to proceed with military action in Vietnam was the

• Tet Offensive

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution

• Nixon Doctrine

The communists fighting the US in the Vietnam Conflict were called the

• Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)

• Viet Cong

• Charlie

• NVA

What was the main weapon used by the US military to fight the war in Vietnam?

• atomic weapons

• tanks

• helicopters

• armored jeeps

The main type of fighting in Vietnam was

• trench warfare

• tank warfare

• large armies fighting for control of cities

• guerilla warfare