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Warm Up:. Review for Quiz. Chapter 17. Kennedy Administration 1960-1963. Kennedy becomes president. First televised debates 1960 Nixon was recovering from illness, look pale and thin Kennedy had just returned from vacation in California, was tan and well rested

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Warm Up:

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  1. Warm Up: Review for Quiz

  2. Chapter 17 Kennedy Administration 1960-1963

  3. Kennedy becomes president First televised debates 1960 • Nixon was recovering from illness, look pale and thin • Kennedy had just returned from vacation in California, was tan and well rested • Radio listeners thought Nixon won debate • Those watching TV gave Kennedy the edge

  4. Kennedy becomes president • Kennedy wins election • Age 43, youngest elected president • First (& only) Catholic president

  5. Foreign Policy Bay of Pigs • 1961 CIA trains 1,000 Cuban refugees • goal to inspire Cuban people to rise up against Castro’s communist regime • Refugees attack Cuba at Bay of Pigs • Attack failed

  6. Foreign Policy Vienna Conference • Kennedy invited Khrushchev to a conference in Vienna in 1961 • Goal to reduce tensions • Khrushchev demands the U.S. recognize East Germany, withdraw from West Berlin

  7. Foreign Policy Berlin Crisis • Kennedy called up reserve troops, launched a program to build nuclear shelters, began troop build up in West Germany • Khrushchev threatened to mobilize Soviet troops

  8. Foreign Policy Berlin Wall • Khrushchev responded by closing all crossing points between east and west Berlin • Within hours 25,000 east German troops were guarding hastily build barbed wire barrier to West Berlin • Replaced with permanent structure

  9. Foreign Policy Cuban Missile Crisis • 1962- US learns USSR plans to build missile bases in Cuba • Kennedy blockades Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from delivering missiles • For 13 days Soviet ships approached Cuba • US citizens lived in fear that war would start • 550 bombers, armed with nuclear weapons, put on alert • 100,000 U.S. troops assembled in Georgia

  10. Foreign Policy Cuban Missile Crisis • As Soviet ships neared the blockade, they turned back • Soviets agreed to destroy bases and remove missiles • US agreed not to invade Cuba • Closest the world has come to nuclear war

  11. How did the Cold War shape the foreign policy of JFK?

  12. Chapter 17 Quiz tomorrow

  13. Foreign Policy • Peace Corps - Volunteers to Asia, Africa and Latin America to work with people in different countries to improve health care, farming and education. • Alliance for Progress - build schools, housing, roads, hospitals, power plants in Latin America.

  14. Foreign Policy • Continued nuclear arms build up • Developed strategy of flexible response • Strengthen non-nuclear forces • Give the nation other options instead of nuclear weapons in crisis

  15. Domestic Policy New Frontier- Kennedy’s plans for changing the nation. • Help the poor - reduce taxes to fight unemployment - Raise minimum wage - Retrain unemployed workers • Many of Kennedy’s proposals were blocked in Congress - Conservative Southern Democrats joined with Republicans in opposition. • Kennedy’s narrow victory in 1960 denied him a clear mandate, or authorization to act.

  16. Space Race • 1957 USSR launched first satellite, Sputnik • 1960- JFK Promised US on Moon by 1970 NASA established • 1962 John Glenn first American to circle the earth • 1969 Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldridge land on the moon

  17. The Warren Court • Supreme Court, headed by chief Justice Earl Warren, • made a series of important rulings during the Kennedy administration.

  18. Case Studies • Baker v. Carr (1962) • Westbury v. Sanders (1964) • Reynolds v Sims (1964) • Mapp v. Ohio (1961) • Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) • Miranda v. Arizona (1966) • Engel v. Vitale (1962) See r22-r29 in your textbooks

  19. Each group is responsible for providing written answers the following questions: • What was the background of the case? • What did the Supreme Court decide? • What was the significance of the ruling? Your group will then come up with a creative way to demonstrate the case to your classmates. Your presentation should answer the three questions.

  20. Watch Breaking News

  21. Assassination • 11/23/1963 Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald • Oswald shot by Jack Ruby while be transferred to county jail • Warren Commission investigates assassination, rules Oswald and Ruby acted alone

  22. LBJ becomes President • After the assassination of Kennedy, his VP, Lyndon Baines Johnson became President • LBJ promised to carry out the agenda of JFK

  23. War on Poverty LBJ declared a War on Poverty in 1964 • Congress passed Economic Opportunity Act • Job Corps - work training programs for unemployed youth • Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)- domestic version of Peace Corps

  24. The Great Society • The Great Society - Outlined the domestic goals of President Johnson

  25. The Great Society • Social Reforms and elimination of poverty • Health Care - Medicaid- program that provides health care fo the poor - Medicare- program that provides health care for the elderly • Federal funding for education • Mass transit • Environmental standards • National Endowments of the Arts • Public Broadcasting

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