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John F. Kennedy 1961-1963

John F. Kennedy 1961-1963. A sk not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. 1960 Election Kennedy (D) v Nixon(R). Kennedy’s Catholic faith an issue early in the campaign but resolved. Kennedy beats Nixon in the first televised TV Debate

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John F. Kennedy 1961-1963

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  1. John F. Kennedy1961-1963 Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.

  2. 1960 Election Kennedy (D) v Nixon(R) • Kennedy’s Catholic faith an issue early in the campaign but resolved. • Kennedy beats Nixon in the first televised TV Debate • Kennedy with Lyndon B. Johnson as his vice president wins by a narrow margin over Nixon.

  3. Foreign Policy: 1961 • Bay of Pigs Invasion: failed attempt by the CIA & Cuban exiles to invade Cuba & overthrow Castro. This failure early in Kennedy’s administration made him look weak. • Berlin Wall: Khrushchev’s attempt to keep East Germans from escaping to West Germany. Escalated the Cold War

  4. Foreign Policy: 1962 • Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S. U-2 plane spots missile launching pads in Cuba. Kennedy gives Khrushchev an ultimatum: Take out missiles. • Blockades Russian ships from landing in Cuba. Khrushchev backs down after Kennedy agrees not to invade Cuba & to withdraw missiles from Turkey. • Closest we get to nuclear war.

  5. Cuban Missile Crisis

  6. Foreign: Other • Flexible response (not brinksmanship) JFK’s Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara’s idea for confronting foreign problems. • Alliance for Progress: Kennedy’s failed “Marshall Plan” for Latin America. • Vietnam: military advisors and a coup to oust President Diem, a political liability who let Buddhist monks burn in the streets of Saigon,

  7. The New Frontier: Domestic Policy Camelot: A legendary kingdom with JFK & Jackie as King Arthur & Queen Guinevere

  8. Domestic Policy • Peace Corps: a way to have young people serve their country through volunteering in 3rd world countries. • Keynesian economics: using deficit spending to put $ into the economy to stimulate growth. • Successfully pushes steel union to lower prices. • New Frontier: promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

  9. Domestic Policy

  10. Domestic Policy • Civil Rights: Sends National Guard to escort James Meredith to classes at U. of Mississippi. • MLK’s March on Washington, 1963. • Kennedy’s support for Civil Rights Act.

  11. JFK Assassination • JFK & Jackie go to Dallas to gain Democratic support. • Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates JFK, is caught & is himself killed by Jack Ruby. LBJ becomes president. • November 22, 1963

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