JFK launched the New Frontier program which aimed to increase funding for education, medical care for the elderly, and end racial discrimination. This laid the groundwork for LBJ's Great Society program. LBJ declared a war on poverty through programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, Job Corps, and increased funding for education, housing, transportation, and the arts. The Great Society aimed to improve living conditions and enable people to lift themselves out of poverty through over 200 new programs across many areas including education, healthcare, housing, transportation, poverty, and the environment. However, the Great Society and Vietnam War strained the budget and divided public support.

1. J.F.K’s New Frontier to L.B.J’s Great Society

3. Served in WWII

4. Senator from Massachusetts

6. Space race---put a man on the moon

7. Berlin Wall built

8. Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp

9. Cuban Missile Crisis

10. U.S. involvement in Vietnam

11. Negotiates first nuclear test ban treaty with Soviets

13. Medical care for the elderly

14. Government intervention to halt the recession with tax cuts.

15. End to racial discrimination.

16. Established

17. Alliance for Peace and Peace Corps to help Third World countries

19. Disappointed many civil rights activists = feared splitting Democratic Party.

21. Kennedy Assassination lbj sworn in November 22, 1963 Dallas, TX

23. Civil Rights Act, 1964

24. Voting Rights Act, 1965

25. War On Poverty = "Great Society"

26. Anti-Poverty Act, 1964

27. Education reform

29. LBJ’s Remarks at the University of Michigan:(May 22, 1964) Next Generation’s challenge = solve the problem of poverty American need to build a “Great Society” abundance and liberty for all three places to build the Great Society in our cities in our countryside in our classrooms

30. Major Great Society Programs War on Poverty: forty programs that were intended to eliminate poverty by improving living conditions and enabling people to lift themselves out of the cycle of poverty. HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBANDEVELOPMENT ACT FOOD STAMP ACT OF 1964 URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION

31. Johnson & the War on Poverty

33. Improving Education Education: sixty separate bills that provided for new and better-equipped classrooms, minority scholarships, and low-interest student loans. HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT of 1968 Head Start: program for four- and five-year-old children from low-income families.

35. HEALTHCARE:MEDICARE ANDMEDICAID Medicare & Medicaid: guaranteed health care to every American over sixty-five and to low-income families. Medicare was eventually passed during the LBJ administration It was first passed on July 30, 1965 It served as an amendment to Social Security

36. Environment and the Arts The Environment: introduced measures to protect clean air and water. CLEAN AIR ACT OF 1963 National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities: government funding for artists, writers and performers. NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS & THE HUMANITIES ACT

37. GREAT SOCIETY

39. 5min LBJ Great Soc