Lyndon Johnson took office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy with an ambitious plan for eradicating poverty in the United States.
But the war in Vietnam got in the way.
The War in Vietnam largely derailed Johnson's War on Poverty as the War in Vietnam quickly took away the funding for some of the key programs and overshadowed the accomplishments in the nightly news.
The british were able to gain more forces by gaining support from the loyalist to fight for the British army and by telling the slaves that if they chose to fight for the British they would be set free after the war was won
President Wilson believed that Germany violated the laws of neutrality through "aggressive" warfare. This could be contrasted to warfare that was waged defensively, which was not the case.