USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He won election to the United States Senate in 1948 after a narrow and controversial victory in the Democratic Party’s primary. He was appointed to the position of Senate Majority Whip in 1951. He became the Senate Democratic leader in 1953 and majority leader in 1954.

Detailed explanation-2: -Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Detailed explanation-3: -President Lyndon B. Johnson, although a southern Democrat himself, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65.

Detailed explanation-5: -Johnson pursued conciliatory policies with the Soviet Union, but stopping well short of the détente policy Richard Nixon introduced in the 1970s. He was instead committed to the traditional policy of containment, seeking to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.