Lyndon B. Johnson

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  1. 2. Nickname for First Lady Claudia Alta Taylor
  2. 3. Johnson received the _______ from General Douglas MacArthur for gallantry in action during an aerial combat mission over hostile positions in New Guinea
  3. 5. name of Democratic Party opponent to whom Johnson lost the Democratic nomination in the election of 1960
  4. 7. city in Texas where Johnson did his first teaching job at a Hispanic school
  5. 9. The war started when the leader ____________ lead the Viet Minh movement for Vietnamese independence from France during WW2.
  6. 10. program in which Johnson was appointed head after being named VP by President Kennedy
  7. 13. Name of assassin who killed John F Kennedy and gave Johnson the presidential spot
  8. 14. Movement during the Vietnam war that sang at Johnson, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many boys did you kill today?
  9. 15. This program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965. It was a plan to try to abolish poverty in the United States. It provided aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, and removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
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  1. 1. This act of 1964 was Lyndon B. Johnson's most remembered legislation that he passed. It made discrimination on the basis of race, gender, color,religion, and national origin outlawed.
  2. 4. teachers college where Johnson was rejected from then accepted
  3. 6. Congressman who asked Johnson to come to Washington to be his top aide
  4. 8. event that encouraged Johnson to become the first Congressman to volunteer to actively serve in the military
  5. 11. river near Stonewall where Johnson grew up in his family's small Texan farmhouse.
  6. 12. LBJ’s first act as president was to investigate the assassination of Kennedy. He appointed a commission, chaired by Chief Justice ________