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KENNEDY AND JOHNSON

KENNEDY AND JOHNSON. KENNEDY. Election of 1960 -Kennedy (D) -Nixon (R) -showed the importance of TV Kennedy wins - “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. Foreign policy -FLEXIBLE RESPONSE -improve military

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KENNEDY AND JOHNSON

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  1. KENNEDY AND JOHNSON

  2. KENNEDY Election of 1960 -Kennedy (D) -Nixon (R) -showed the importance of TV Kennedy wins - “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”

  3. Foreign policy -FLEXIBLE RESPONSE -improve military -Special forces -more nukes TROUBLES -Berlin -Khruschev closes Berlin -Berlin Wall

  4. -Cuba - 1959 Communist Revolution -Fidel Castro -kicked America out -Bay of Pigs -failed CIA invasion of Cuba -Result -Soviets send missiles -CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS!!!!!

  5. CLOSEST THE WORLD HAS COME TO WORLD WAR III!!!!!!

  6. Effects -Hotline -USSR and US -Test Ban Treaty KENNEDY DOMESTIC -NEW FRONTIER -deficit spending -vocational retraining -defense -fighting poverty overseas

  7. -PEACE CORPS -young people -develop 3rd world -ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS -economic and technical -Latin America SPACE RACE -SPUTNIK (1957) -first satellite -Russian

  8. -EXPLORER 1 -first American satellite -NASA -Yuri Gagarin -Vostok -first man in space -cosmonaut -Kennedy says “America will be the first to the moon” -ALAN SHEPHARD -first astronaut -JOHN GLENN -first American in orbit

  9. -disaster -Apollo 1 -astronauts die in fire -Challenger (1986) -APOLLO 11 -NEIL ARMSTRONG - “ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND”

  10. NOVEMBER 22,1963 DALLAS, TEXAS

  11. JOHNSON GREAT SOCIETY -end racial discrimination -END POVERTY -Job Corps -VISTA -Volunteers in Service to America -Head Start -Medicare (elderly) -Medicaid (poor)

  12. -Environment -Water Quality and Clean Air Act -Rachael Carson -Silent Spring -Consumer protection -Unsafe at Any Speed -Ralph Nader EFFECTS -government grew -increased budget deficit -poverty decreases

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