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GCSE History · key term
President Lyndon B. Johnson's programme of domestic reforms aimed at reducing poverty and inequality and improving access to education and healthcare.
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Paper 1
Revise: America and the ‘Great Society'Johnson succeeded Kennedy and developed a more extensive reform programme, the Great Society. Sympathy following Kennedy's assassination helped Johnson build support for reform. He sought not merely to relieve hardship but to expand access to the skills and services that could help people escape it.
Paper 1
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s programme of domestic reforms intended to reduce poverty, improve opportunities and advance civil rights.
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Johnson wanted a Great Society in which poverty and racial discrimination no longer prevented people from improving their lives. At the same time, he expanded American involvement in Vietnam to contain communism and protect American credibility as a superpower.