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JFK: Foreign Policy

JFK: Foreign Policy. 1961- Bay of Pigs 1961, Berlin Wall 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis 1963, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. JFK: New Frontier. Reform at home and victory abroad Increase in defense and space spending Decrease in unemployment Failed to redistribute income evenly

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JFK: Foreign Policy

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  1. JFK: Foreign Policy • 1961- Bay of Pigs • 1961, Berlin Wall • 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis • 1963, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  2. JFK: New Frontier • Reform at home and victory abroad • Increase in defense and space spending • Decrease in unemployment • Failed to redistribute income evenly • Few of his proposals made into law • Tries to get civil rights bills passed into laws in Congress, but stalled.

  3. Civil Rights Groups • SCLC- Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Montgomery Bus Boycotts & Birmingham protests • SNCC- Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, sit-ins and voting registrations during Freedom Summer (focused on AL & MS) believed North would pay more attention if white kids were targeted; eventually led by Stokeley Carmichael who dismisses nonviolence advocated “black power” • CORE- Congress on Racial Equality,

  4. JFK: Civil Rights • 1961 CORE &Freedom Rides • 1962 University of Mississippi and James Meredith- sent 3000 federal troops to protect his right to attend class • 1963 Birmingham riots, 16th street Baptist Church bombing, University of Alabama and George Wallace, March on Washington (for an end to discrimination bill to be passed) 200,000 black & white supporters • Young African Americans were losing patience with slow progress towards equality and continued violence against peaceful protests.

  5. LBJ: Great Society • Reduced income taxes • Economic Opportunity Act- to prevent job discrimination • “War on Poverty”- Head Start, Job Corps, Medicare, Medicaid, Higher Education Act, etc. pg. 975 • Increase in consumer spending • Decrease in unemployment • Minimum wage from $1.25 to $1.40

  6. LBJ: Civil Rights • Civil Rights Act of 1964- outlawed segregation in public accommodations and gave government powers to end school segregation • Black Panthers- militant & advocated self-rule for American blacks; “get whitey” • 1964 Freedom Summer- registered 1200 • Malcolm X v. MLK • 1965 Selma March to Montgomery (voting rights), Watts Riots- 34 dead and burned 700 bldgs. • Voting Rights Act of 1965- ended literacy tests • 24th Amendment (outlawed poll tax) • 1968 MLK, Jr. assassinated

  7. Warren Court: A few of the most important cases of Earl Warren • Brown v. Board of Education 1954 • Baker v. Carr 1962-manipulating voting districts • Engel v. Vital 1962- no prayer in school • Gideon v. Wainwright 1963-provide counsel in felony cases • Miranda v. Arizona 1966- rights of accused

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