| Created in 1964, the purpose of this government
agency was to fund and coordinate a Job Corps
that would give young people a competitive
edge in the job market. |
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| The young American lieutenant who was brought
to trial for the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese
civilians. |
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| After much investigation, it came to the
conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the
lone assassin of President Kennedy. |
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| This federal law declared discrimination
on the basis of race and sex to be illegal. |
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| The belief in the 1950s and 1960s that the
fall of one nation to Communism would lead
to the fall of neighboring countries. |
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| The widespread public suspicion that President
Johnson's statements about the Vietnam War
were not trustworthy. |
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| A provision of federal law that prohibited
discrimination on the basis of sex in many
educational programs receiving federal funds. |
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| President Johnson's domestic programs for
social renovation that included VISTA, Job
Corps and Head Start. |
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| This federal law defended the right of African
Americans in the South to register to vote. |
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| A government insurance program under the
Social Security System that pays for the
medical care of elderly citizens. |
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| In this legislation, Congress gave President
Johnson full authority to employ U. S. armed
forces in Vietnam. |
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| This conservative Republican Senator from
Arizona, who ran unsuccessfully against Johnson
in 1964, said that Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. |
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| This federal agency provided vocational training,
day-care centers, and projects to give jobs
and opportunities to young Americans, especially
those in inner cities. |
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| The full-scale attack by Communist forces
in 1968 against major South Vietnam cities. |
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| A federally funded program for disadvantaged
pre-school children. |
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