Standards

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Standards

• SSUSH23 The student will describe and assess the
  impact of political developments between 1945 and
  1970.
• c. Explain Lyndon Johnsons Great Society
  include the establishment of Medicare.
• d. Describe the social and political turmoil of
  1968 include the assassinations of Martin Luther
  King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and the events
  surrounding the Democratic National Convention.

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• The Supreme Court under Warren was an activist
  court, handing down a number of landmark
  decisions.
• Warren wrote many decisions himself, including
  Brown v. Board of Education, dealing with school
  desegregation, and Miranda v. Arizona, dealing
  with the right not to self-incriminate.
• The justices decided that there could be no
  further delays in the integration of schools in
  Little Rock, Arkansas after the Brown decision.

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• The Supreme Court under Warren was an activist
  court, handing down a number of landmark
  decisions.
• Warren wrote many decisions himself, including
  Brown v. Board of Education, dealing with school
  desegregation, and Miranda v. Arizona, dealing
  with the right not to self-incriminate.
• The justices decided that there could be no
  further delays in the integration of schools in
  Little Rock, Arkansas after the Brown decision.

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Swearing in LBJ on Air Force 1
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Lyndon Johnsons Great Society

• domestic policies of President Lyndon Johnson
• State of the Union message, he called for a war
  on poverty and the creation of a Great Society,
  a prosperous nation that had overcome racial
  divisions.
• During his administration, Congress enacted two
  major civil-rights acts (1964 and 1965), the
  Economic Opportunity Act (1964), and two
  education acts (1965).
• legislation was passed that created the Job
  Corps, Operation Head Start, Volunteers in
  Service to America (VISTA), Medicaid, and
  Medicare.

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Establishment of Medicare

• Prior to 1965, nearly half of the elderly had no
  health insurance and many others had inadequate
  coverage. Medicare was enacted to help assure
  that virtually all citizens age 65 or older would
  have health care coverage.

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• As the Nation moves into the 21st century,
  Medicare is facing serious financial challenges.
• Over the next 50 years the number of
  beneficiaries is expected to more than double
  while the ratio of workers, whose payroll taxes
  fund over half of the program, to beneficiaries
  is expected to decline from about 4 to 1 to a
  little over than 2 to 1.
• Moreover, recent estimates from the Congressional
  Budget Office and the Administration predict that
  the program will be bankrupt about the time the
  growth in beneficiaries accelerates as the baby
  boom generation starts to become eligible in 2010.

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• MEDICARE'S CONNECTION TO MEDICAID
• Medicare is closely connected to Medicaid, the
  federal/state health insurance program for
  low-income Americans.

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Social and political turmoil 1968

• The year 1968 marked many changes for the United
  States. It signaled the end of the
  Kennedy-Johnson presidencies, the end of the
  civil rights movement, and the beginning of the
  end of the war in Vietnam. More than that, it
  meant a change in public attitudes and beliefs.

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Assassination Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• April 1968

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AssassinationRobert Kennedy
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• On 5th June 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was at
  the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, to give a
  press conference, after winning the California
  Primary.
• Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, stepped forward and
  fired a .22 revolver at the Senator. Although
  Sirhan was quickly subdued, Kennedy and five
  others were wounded. Kennedy was fatally wounded.
  
• Sirhan was arrested at the scene, charged and
  convicted of first degree murder. He was to have
  been executed, but the U.S. Supreme Court voided
  the constitutionality of the death sentence
  before the sentence could be carried out. Sirhan
  has been incarcerated at Corcoran State Prison,
  California, since then.

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• 1968 is recognized as being a pivotal year in
  United States and the world. On January 31st,
  Viet Cong opened the Tet Offensive by attacking
  major cities of South Vietnam, a move that
  triggered President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for
  peace negotiations.
• On April 4th, civil rights leader Martin Luther
  King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis,
  Tennessee, leading to riots in Washington, D.C.
  and other cities.
• In June, Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. attorney
  general and U.S. senator from New York, was
  assassinated in Los Angeles while campaigning for
  the Democratic Presidential nomination.

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• At Mexico City's Summer Olympic Games, African
  American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos
  won gold and bronze medals, then bowed their
  heads and raised clenched fists during the
  playing of the U.S. national anthem in protest of
  U.S. racism.

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• In August, the Democratic National Convention in
  Chicago was marred by clashes between Vietnam War
  protesters and Mayor Daley's police force.
• And in November, Richard Nixon was elected
  President with running mate Spiro Agnew, making
  one of the most extraordinary political comebacks
  in U.S. history. These and other events marked
  the year 1968 as a benchmark of unrest, tumult,
  and change.