The Significance Of The Warren Commission

Warren Commision- The Warren Commission was a committee that consisted of seven-members headed by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. It was created in order to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former marine who was dishonorably discharged. What made the investigation more complicated was the killing of Oswald two days after he was arrested by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner. This brought up the question of did Oswald act alone? The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald did in fact work alone. The Warren Commission was significant in that it gave the American public a little bit of closure in a time when America was heartbroken at the loss of their President.

Civil Rights Act of 1964 - The
He and other liberals believed that, in a time of great economic affluence, the nation had the resources for programs that could end “poverty, ignorance, and hunger as intractable, permanent features of American Society.” Beginning in 1964 the Johnson administration passed more than a score of major legislative acts meant to do so. The significance of the War on Poverty was how successful and unsuccessful it was. It did alleviate some of the effects of poverty, directly addressing the debilitating housing, health, and nutritional deficiencies from which the poor had long suffered. However, many War on Poverty programs less successfully addressed the root causes of poverty and many of the poor people remained in the same socio-economic
destroyers reported coming under attack from North Vietnamese patrol boats. This prompted military action and Congress quickly passed the resolution which gave the President the authority to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent aggression.” The resolution was significant in that Congress essentially surrendered its war making powers to the executive branch.

Operation Rolling Thunder - In February 1965, in response to Vietcong attacks on American installations in South Vietnam that killed thirty-two Americans, Johnson ordered Operation Rolling Thunder, a bombing program planned the previous fall that continued, more or less uninterrupted, until October 1968. Operation Rolling Thunder was significant in that it, along with U.S. troop commitment, “Americanized” the war. What could have been seen as a civil war between North and South, or a war of national reunification, was now clearly an American war against the communist Hanoi