THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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Question
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Poverty was eliminated in the U.S.
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President Johnson’s popularity plummeted.
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The federal government shrank considerably.
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The lives of many underprivileged Americans improved.
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Detailed explanation-1: -13 The Act provided better access to home mortgages and a rent-subsidy program. Johnson’s Great Society policies birthed Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. All of which remain government programs in 2021.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some effects of the Great Society programs are a decreased infant mortality rate and the authorization of Medicare by the Social Security Act of 1965.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was part of Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” reform package-the largest social improvement agenda by a President since FDR’s “New Deal.” Here, Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law before a large audience at the White House.
Detailed explanation-4: -If Johnson’s program did not eradicate all poverty, it ameliorated it considerably. The national poverty rate was 19 percent in 1964. Ten years later, it had dropped to below 11.2 percent, and it has never gone above 15.2 percent since then.