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Revision as of 01:25, February 9, 2019
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==Civil rights==
==Civil rights==
==Great Society==
==War on Poverty==
The War on Poverty was a set of programs instituted by President Johnson and its associated legislation passed by [[Congress]] in an effort to supposedly combat [[poverty]]. It was criticized extensively by [[conservative]]s because it expanded the [[welfare]] system and increased citizen dependency on the [[government]]. It was also reputed to have destroyed the Black family unit.
[[Michael Harrington]] is credited with inspiring the War on Poverty with his 1962 book "''The Other America''".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 }}</ref>
Like the Vietnam war, the Democratic party led America to another defeat in the War on Poverty. The [[big government]] [[Binge drinking|spending binge]] of the 1960s culminated in the [[stagflation]] hangover of the 1970s and the [[Reaganomics|Reaganomic]] reforms of the 1980s.
==Vietnam war==
==Vietnam war==
Max Boot wrote: {{quotebox|Numerous bits of conventional wisdom have accreted around the Vietnam War. It is commonly held that [[Ho Chi Minh]] was a Vietnamese nationalist above all, not a true [[communist]], and that his victory was inevitable. That [[Ngo Dinh Diem]] was an unpopular and repressive [[reactionary]]. That the United States had no vital strategic interest in defending South Vietnam. That the ‘[[domino theory]]’ was a myth. That the U.S. was right not to invade North Vietnam or Laos for fear of triggering Chinese intervention. [[Mark Moyar]], a young, bold, and iconoclastic historian, takes a sledge hammer to these hoary beliefs. [His book] is ‘revisionist’ in the best sense of the word.” [http://www.triumphforsaken.com/]}}
Max Boot wrote: {{quotebox|Numerous bits of conventional wisdom have accreted around the Vietnam War. It is commonly held that [[Ho Chi Minh]] was a Vietnamese nationalist above all, not a true [[communist]], and that his victory was inevitable. That [[Ngo Dinh Diem]] was an unpopular and repressive [[reactionary]]. That the United States had no vital strategic interest in defending South Vietnam. That the ‘[[domino theory]]’ was a myth. That the U.S. was right not to invade North Vietnam or Laos for fear of triggering Chinese intervention. [[Mark Moyar]], a young, bold, and iconoclastic historian, takes a sledge hammer to these hoary beliefs. [His book] is ‘revisionist’ in the best sense of the word.” [http://www.triumphforsaken.com/]}}