Explain why and how the programs of the Great Society developed in the 1960s. Bring up specific examples to illustrate this. Also, explain how political commitments in the decade and a half after the war laid the groundwork for the welfare state that emerged in the 1960s (759).

In other words, explain how the programs of the Great Society developed, at least in part, because of events and policies that occurred in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. Finally, explain what is implied by calling this the Great Society.