The Great Society was NOT the result of the Vietnam War. They were a set of domestic programs and the main objective of the programs was the elimination of poverty and inequality. Medicare is one of the programs that came about as a result of the programs. Federal funding for education was also part of the Great Society. In the last two or three months much of these programs have been eliminated or will be changed.
The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, and the removal of obstacles
Members of society were being drafted to fight the Vietnam War; consequently, they were against it.
Australian society mirrored American society after the war, on a smaller scale, due to population differences.
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Great Britain did not send troops to Vietnam during the war.
The Vietnam War deflected people from the aims of his Great Society.
The Vietnam War was very damaging to Johnson's Great Society aspirations. People were outraged by the premise and practices of the war.
The Vietnam War was very damaging to Johnson's Great Society aspirations. People were outraged by the premise and practices of the war.
Funding was needed for the Vietnam war
His "Great Society." That was the term used.
The Vietnam war distracted the American people from Johnson's plan for a "Great Society".
The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, and the removal of obstacles
Members of society were being drafted to fight the Vietnam War; consequently, they were against it.
Australian society mirrored American society after the war, on a smaller scale, due to population differences.
Because VIETNAM sidetracked Johnson's REAL INTEREST..."His Great Society!"
One of the reasons support for the Great Society declined in the late 1960's were issues with the Vietnam war. The Vietnam war greatly reduced the amount of political power that could be used promoting The Great Society. Johnson felt that he was going to be criticized either way. If he elected to stay out of the war and work on his Great Society programs at home he would be criticized as a coward for not promoting the promise of containment. This would not only hurt him but the nation as well. If he entered the war it would essentially kill any chance of the Great Society working to its full extent, he felt that his obligation as President was to the nation, and therefore chose to enter the war, which damaged his Great Society.
The Republic of SOUTH Vietnam was a free society; NORTH Vietnam was communist based.