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Kennedy Kicks Off

Kennedy Kicks Off. The Election of 1960. Nominations? Republican – Richard Nixon Democrat – John F. Kennedy Issues with Kennedy Young Catholic Issues are moot after WV primary. The “Great Debates”. The Debates Platforms Kennedy Nation is stagnant  “New Frontier”

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Kennedy Kicks Off

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  1. Kennedy Kicks Off

  2. The Election of 1960 • Nominations? • Republican – Richard Nixon • Democrat – John F. Kennedy • Issues with Kennedy • Young • Catholic • Issues are moot after WV primary

  3. The “Great Debates” • The Debates • Platforms • Kennedy • Nation is stagnant  “New Frontier” • “Let’s get the country moving again” • Nixon • “We never had it so good. I say we can do better.”

  4. Down the stretch they come! • Who wins?! • Well, duh, we know • BUT • It was a close one…REALLY REALLY close

  5. Can Kennedy do this? • He has all the tools • Nice guy, good looking, courageous, intelligent • Can he follow through though? • Young, inexperienced • Inaugural Address

  6. Starting with a bang • Laos • French Indochina • CIA help • Communists attempt to takeover • Truce of 1962 • Warring factions come together • “coalition government” • Geneva peace  2 years only

  7. Bay of Pigs • This is a MAJOR embarrassment for Kennedy and his administration • April 1961 • Force trained and supplied by US to overthrow Castro

  8. Uh-Oh • 1500 Refugees land • Not successful • USSR threatens to aid Cuba if USA does not back off • 1200/1500 are captured • Freed only after a $53 million total ransom

  9. Vienna • Krushchev again calls for Berlin to be “free” • Make an alliance with E. Berlin and suffocate W. Berlin • West Berlin is thriving • Peaceful moves by USSR?

  10. Vienna “summit • Krushchev and Kennedy meet for the first time • Kennedy holds fast • “I see it’s going to be a very cold winter.”

  11. It goes up • Kennedy will fight for Berlin • Begins preparation • August 1961 • Troops sent in • 1963 • “I am a Berliner”

  12. “Flexible Response” • Not the least and not the greatest but somewhere in between

  13. Alliance for Progress • Latin American focus • Just like the Marshall Plan • We give you money, you better your society • Not really going to work out like we planned • Never really attempted reforms • Real focus is supporting anti-communist governments

  14. The Peace Corps • Response to accusation • US wants to fight communism more than promote freedom • Thousands of young ones • All expenses paid but are volunteers • Serve as whatever they were needed as

  15. How is this going to work out? • Good or bad? • List of what needed to be done outstrips the effort to take care of things • Culture problems? • Some don’t want us • Patriotism for Americans

  16. Communist Challenges • “Fire ze missile!” • Are we or are we not behind the Soviets? • Election Issue • We aren’t!  Nixon was right • Arms Race  Get a bigger dog • Mutual Assured Destruction

  17. Results? • ICBMs • SLBMs • Nautilus

  18. The Great Race of the Space Variety • Get Some • Russians • Yuri Gagarin – First Man in Space • We race to equal them • “We will land on the moon before 1970”

  19. YAY!!! No Tests! • Radiation = Bad • No more testing the atmosphere • Soviet Union continues to do it • United States begins to test underground • UN Meeting – Full Disarmament!

  20. Test-Ban Treaty • 1963, July • Great Britain, Soviet Union and US • No more atmospheric testing • Underground still allowed and current weapon caches not touched

  21. Vietnam Problems…Again -.- • Geneva Convention from 1954 • Everyone go back to square one • Elections in 1956 • SV doesn’t think elections will help • Ngo Dinh Diem • 1960 – the real trouble starts

  22. Viet-Cong • 1960 • National Liberation Front – Viet-Cong(NV) • Eisenhower supports SV and troops are sent in • Kennedy is on the fence about sending in more troops • Let them deal • Diem goes down

  23. The New Frontier • Kennedy tries to talk the talk and walk the walk….YO • Burned – Education Bill and “socialized medicine” are shot down

  24. It’s Business Time • Ownage • Minimum wage goes up • More urban renewal • 24th Amendment • Retrain unemployed workers

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