HST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Port Huron Statement, Deindustrialization, U.S. Route 150
18 Apr 2018
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Very good at getting bills thro congress. Strong believer in new deal and wanted to expand on programs already in place. 1962 - michael harrington book the other america stated that more than 1/5 of us families lived in poverty. Minorities and elderly struggled the most financially. Johnson attempts to build great society free of injustice and poverty. Accomplish this thro educational, health, employment, housing programs. Job corps, head start, medicare (elderly), medicaid (poor) Vietnam war reduces money available for social programs. Conservatives see great society as too much gov intervention, too costly, making people depend on gov for help. French colony until 1954 when they gained independence. Divided into communist north under ho chi minh, south under ngo dinh diem. Diem was catholic in a country that was 90% buddhist, tried to pursue policies to repress the people. Us provides massive aid to diem because he wasnt communism. Opposition in s. vietnam created national liberation front (viet cong)
