Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

1947–1991 tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies

The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until US forces were withdrawn in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.

competition to explore space between USA and USSR

John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, when he was fatally shot from the nearby Texas School Book Depository by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after the shooting; Connally was also wounded in the attack but recovered. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was hastily sworn in as president two hours and eight minutes later aboard Air Force One at Dallas Love Field.

1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement

landmark U.S. civil rights and labor law

US federal health insurance

1968 murder in Los Angeles, California, US

45th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting

U.S. presidential commission on the Assassination of J. F. Kennedy

political program launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65

1968 murder in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S

Medicaid is a government program in the United States that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a significant portion of their funding. States are not required to participate in the program, although all have since 1982.

1964 amendment prohibiting poll taxes

1967 US statute regarding access to information produced by the US government; gave individuals, including non-US citizens, rights to apply for looking into government files including those - with restrictions - of the US intelligence agencies

foreign policy doctrine of the Johnson administration

1965 civil war in the Dominican Republic

United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level

US tariff on light trucks, instituted in response to European tariffs on US chicken

8th United States intra-term presidential inauguration

mass shooting

American immigration law

45th United States presidential inauguration

unofficial name for legislation first introduced by U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964

U.S. presidential administration from 1963 to 1969

a Cold War incident involving an unarmed American T-39 being shot down by a Soviet MiG

American photographer (1920–2008)

phase of the Cold War between 1962–1979

President Lyndon B. Johnson's speech after the assassination of John F. Kennedy

National Security Agency surveillance operation

German-born American lithographer and painter (1910–2002)

act of Congress in the United States

Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to stop his 1968 re-election campaign