THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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Civil Rights Act
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Economic Opportunity Act
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Pendleton Service Act
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Warren Court
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Detailed explanation-1: -War on Poverty, expansive social welfare legislation introduced in the 1960s by the administration of U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and intended to help end poverty in the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Office of Economic Opportunity was the agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society legislative agenda.
Detailed explanation-4: -Economic Opportunity Act (EOA), federal legislation establishing a variety of social programs aimed at facilitating education, health, employment, and general welfare for impoverished Americans. It was signed into law in August 1964 by U.S. Pres.