In his first State of the Union address in January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress to declare an “unconditional war on poverty” and to aim “not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it” (1965). Over the next five years, Congress passed legislation that transformed American schools, launched Medicare and Medicaid, and expanded housing subsidies, urban development programs, employment and training programs, food stamps, and Social Security and welfare benefits. These programs more than tripled real federal expenditures on health, education, and welfare, which grew to over 15 percent of the federal budget by 1970 (Ginzberg and Solow 1974).
After tremendous tensions between Israel and its neighbors, in early June 1967, the war began, in which Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem of Jordan, and the Golan Plateau of Syria in just six days.
This conflict is known as the Six-Day or the June War and was fought from June 5 to June 10, 1967, between Israel on one side and Egypt, Jordan and Syria on the other.
The philosophy drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion and was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans and other groups from their homes. The rapid expansion of the United States intensified the issue of slavery as new states were added to the Union, leading to the outbreak of the Civil War.
