The Appalachian Regional Development Act

Running head: HISTORY
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HISTORY1
1. The history says that President Lyndon B. Johnson led the Great Society to an aspiring
set of policy proposals, legislation and services focused on poverty removal, crime
reduction, discrimination and climate change. The plan of Johnson in order to eliminate
racial injustices along with poverty was established by The Great Society. The expression
‘Great Society’ had been used by Johnson when the speech had been given in the Ohio
University. Johnson has played a key role in the implementation of the system. The
Appalachian Regional Development Act was considered to be perfect legislation during
‘65’. It has received over $1 billion in grants for ventures underlining economic growth.
Many of these agendas were obviously related to poverty and civil rights (Aaron, 2010).
In the last fifty years, civil law has been a wonderful topic of debate. It is very
unfortunate that racism still exists among individuals of the US. On the other hand,
poverty is another thing to worry about. Numerous people are really suffering from
poverty. Therefore, it is a big thing around the society of the US. Johnson knew that to
fight with poverty would not be an easy task. Therefore, several initiatives had been taken
by him, such as creating employment opportunities, helping people to develop their job
skills through training, reforming the education system (Bellah et al., 2011).
2. Starting from the period of 5th October 1953 to 23rd June 1969 the Warren Court was
operated in which Earl Warren served his duties as the Chief Justice of the US Supreme
Court. The Warren Court was regarded as one of the two most important moments in the
constitutional law of America, along with John Marshall, who had served his duties as the
Chief Justice of Marshall from 1801 to 1835 (Feld, 2002). Contrary to any court before or
after the Warren Court, civil rights, civil freedoms and the authority of judges and the
government have grown significantly. Many authors are of the view that Chief Justice,

HISTORY2
Warren used his political power to steer the court to make sometimes controversial
decisions widening both civil and judicial rights significantly. Nowadays, the Warren
Court has been praised and criticized for ending racial discrimination in the US, by freely
applying the Bill of Rights through the 14th Amendment to the Due Process Clause and
terminating state-sponsored public education prayers (Lain, 2003).
There is no doubt that some of the decisions taken by the Warren Court have a great
impact on American society, but some rulings, such as the disintegration of schools, the
separation of church and state, and freedom of speech are controversial and cannot be
supported.
3. President Lyndon Johnson had been allowed to ‘take every required measure to resist the
armed assault on the forces of U.S. and avoid additional aggression’ by the Communist
government of North Vietnam through the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. On 7th August
1964, it was adopted by the United States. Congress was deployed off the coastline of
Vietnam, after a suspected attack on two U.S. marine destroyers. The complete
participation of America in the Vietnamese war was essentially triggered by the Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution (Bracknell, 2006).
The United States always considered Asia as a maritime threat. The Second World War is
remembered as ‘Pacific War’ in the United States. It can be said very appropriately from
the United States point of view; the battle was mostly waged by the US forces at sea or
through the Pacific Ocean with an anti-amphibious landing. Nevertheless, because of a
confluence of circumstances, the United States has historically favoured the sea. Before it
was a military power, it was a massive maritime trading force. Due to the geographical
location of America, naval forces have always been dominant to America’s projection of