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Warm Up: Images Notes: New Frontier Closing Activity: Quotes Review

Warm Up: Images Notes: New Frontier Closing Activity: Quotes Review. Camelot. -”ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country .” -special focus on American culture -Jackie Kennedy

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Warm Up: Images Notes: New Frontier Closing Activity: Quotes Review

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  1. Warm Up: ImagesNotes: New FrontierClosing Activity: QuotesReview

  2. Camelot -”ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.” -special focus on American culture -Jackie Kennedy fashion – newspapers and magazines began to be filled w/ images and stories of the first family -The Best and the Brightest Group of Kennedy’s advisors – Professionals, Deans, Leaders of Industry -feelings of hope and prosperity

  3. New Frontier -name of Kennedy’s legislative program -medical care for the poor, urban renewal, education - Platforms -Congress resisted his programs like Truman’s Couldn’t get enough votes from Republicans and Southern Democrats -Kennedy took very few political risks lacked a voter’s mandate – no clear indication voters approved of his plans did very little for poverty or civil rights in first years

  4. New Frontier -deficit spending to boost economy Referencing back to the New Deal -increased defense spending 20% increase – and min. wage to $1.25/hr -Peace Corp created, 1961 volunteer program to help poverty stricken nations 35,000 in 60 nations by 1968 -Alliance for Progress- program designed to give aid to poverty stricken Latin American nations 1961 – 1969 – 12 billion – deter from Communism -1963 saw a new Kennedy that pushed for civil rights, end to poverty, lower taxes

  5. Race to the Moon -Sputnik satellite started space race in 1957 Soviets prove to be ahead of the U.S. in technology -1961 USSR sends first man to space - Gagarin -Kennedy challenges national leaders to get us to the moon Takes seven years to attain the goal, but restores National pride -creation of NASA Alan Shepard-first in space John Glenn -first to orbit -program had several setbacks -goal of the moon reached July, 1969 Neil Armstrong- first on the moon

  6. Tragedy -Nov. 22, 1963 Dallas -Kennedy assassinated while riding in a parade -Texas School Book Depository State building Kennedy was shot in front of -Lyndon B. Johnson became president Took the oath of office aboard the presidential airplane -Lee Harvey Oswald arrested for the crime rifle with fingerprints & palm print shady past – 24 y/o ex-Marine, dishonorable discharge, supported Castro, and lived in USSR for a short time -Jack Ruby kills Oswald just days after his arrest for Kennedy’s assassination night club owner – shot Oswald while he was transferring to a different jail

  7. Unanswered Questions -Conspiracy theories lone assassin – on his own magic bullet theory – one bullet did all the damage to Kennedy and Connally Grassy Knoll – where a second gunman might have stood and shot Kennedy -Warren Commission investigated the event and pronounced Oswald the lone assassin -later Congressional investigation suggested other involvement by unknowns – says Kennedy was shot from the front, not the back (Commissions findings)

  8. “Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Speech • “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.” John F. Kennedy • “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard…” John F. Kennedy

  9. Quiz

  10. Name the First Lady who became a social icon during the early 60’s?

  11. This was the official government investigation into the assassination?

  12. What was the find of that group?

  13. What nearly impossible goal did President Kennedy challenge the nation to accomplish before the end of the 1960’s?

  14. In what year was President Kennedy assassinated?

  15. Who shot and killed the accused assassin?

  16. “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what…” Finish the statement from Kennedy’s Inaugural?

  17. Who became President upon his death?

  18. Who was the accused assassin?

  19. Name the legislative program/platform that Kennedy proposed?

  20. Which Kennedy program asked for volunteers to commit to several years worth of service work in poor nations?

  21. This term refers to the second shot of the assassin which had to account for multiple wounds on the President and the Governor of Texas?

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