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1960 Election Republicans

Richard Nixon Democrats

John F. Kennedy (Mass. Sen.)

VP - Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, the Senate majority leader from Texas

The Debates First televised presidential debates. 

Results of the Election of 1960 Kennedy won Youngest president (43) First Catholic Last Dem. to win south and Af. Am. vote

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Kennedy’s Goals Win the Third World

Summoned citizens to: “ask not what your country can do for you:

ask what you can do for your country” Peace Corps

Volunteers sent to third world Educators health workers Technicians/ engineers 

Promote democracy

The Peace Corps

CIA-backed plan to overthrow Fidel Castro

Goal: invade Cuba with

anticommunist exiles

Bay of Pigs

CIA-backed plan to overthrow Fidel Castro

Goal: invade Cuba with

anticommunist exiles Realities

April 1961 – 1,400 exiles landed at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs were captured of killed

Bay of Pigs

CIA-backed plan to overthrow Fidel Castro

Goal: invade Cuba with

anticommunist exiles Realities

April 1961 – 1,400 exiles landed at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs were captured of killed

Results Castro allies with

USSR

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962

U-2 photos revealed Soviet missiles in Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy reaction

Naval “quarantine” of Cuba

Demanded immediate removal of the weapons. 

Cuban Missile Crisis Conclusion

Nuclear war adverted Cuban missiles U.S. pulled missiles out of Turkey U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba

Results of the Cuban Missile Crisis Détente begins (French for relaxation of

tension) Nuclear test-ban treaty (1963) “hot line” between Moscow-Washington

for easy communication in case of crisis

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Kenney’s Goals Win the Third World Win the Space Race

Men on the Moon Promoted a multi-

billion dollar project to land an American on the moon

Accomplished in 1969

“But why, some say, the moon?  And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain?  Why, 35-years ago, fly the Atlantic?... No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space." ... "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”-JFK

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Kenney’s Goals Win the Third World Win the Space Race Civil Rights

Civil Rights Act March on Birmingham May 2, 1963 Marches attacked by police

Civil Rights Act March on Birmingham May 2, 1963 Marches attacked by police June 11

Kennedy demanded passage of Civil Rights Act

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Election of 1964 Great Society

Kennedy’s Assassination November 22,

1963 Dallas, Texas Riding in an open

limousine, an assassin shot and killed Kennedy

Kennedy’s Assassination November 22,

1963 Lyndon Johnson

was sworn in 90 minutes after Kennedy’s death on Air Force One.

Kennedy’s Assassination The Warren Commission

Headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren

Task: Investigate the assassination of Kennedy

Prime Suspect: Lee Harvey Oswald, a supporter of Fidel Castro.  

Two days after Kennedy’s assassination, Oswald was transferred from one jail to another.  While the nation watched on TV, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald

The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had worked alone. 

Check UP! Essay Drill Compare the foreign and domestic

policies of the two of the following presidents: Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower John Kennedy

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Opportunity Cost The cost of an alternative that must be

given up in order to pursue a certain action.

Put another way, the benefits you could have received by taking an alternative action.

Example You decided to go to school today

You gave up….

Example You decided to play on a sports team

You gave up…

Which is more important:A. A strong military that will guarantee

National Security?B. A strong social safety net

(unemployment, food stamps, social security, medical care) that will help those Americans most in need?

Production Possibility Curve

Check Up!Production Possibility Curve

Circle the point on the production possibility curve that represents the U.S. during the Great Depression.

Check Up!Production Possibility Curve

Circle the point on the production possibility curve that represents the U.S. during World War II.

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Kennedy’s Assassination

November 22, 1963

LBJ’s Characteristics Member of HR in

1937, when he was 29;

Joined Senate in 1948

Was Democratic majority leader

Aggressive Politician

LBJ’s Characteristics Member of HR in

1937, when he was 29;

Joined Senate in 1948

Was Democratic majority leader

Aggressive Politician

LBJ’s Characteristics Member of HR in

1937, when he was 29;

Joined Senate in 1948

Was Democratic majority leader

Aggressive Politician

LBJ’s Characteristicso Used aggressive

tactics against political opponents

o Johnson’s 1964 Campaign Ad

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Election of 1964 Democrats

Lyndon B. Johnson Republicans

Sen. Barry Goldwater of AZ

Results of the Election of 1964

Johnson won: 43.1 million-27.2

million (61% was a record)

486-52 Democratic

majorities in both houses of Con.

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Great Society What Is the Great Society?

Goal: Aid public education, provide medical care for the elderly, and eliminate poverty

Michael Harrington’s The Other America (1962) Poverty

20% of the Americans 40% of the Af. Am.

War on Poverty Voting and Civil Rights Acts

Education

Medicare and Medicaid

Immigration Reform

Great Society

War On Poverty Created two new cabinet officers:

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Department of Transportation $4 Billion in economic aid for the

needy

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Banned discrimination in public sphere:

Workplace Theaters Hospitals Restaurants

Federal government could end segregation in schools and other public places

Title VII - enforce gender equality

Voting Rights Act of 1965 Allowed African

Americans to register voters

Eliminated literacy tests

Results: 400,000 African

Americans registered after the law was passed

Aid to Education Elementary and Secondary Education

Act provided $1.3 billion in aid to schools

Congress has reaffirmed the act every 5 yrs. since 1970

No Child Left Behind is the current version of the bill

Medicare and Medicaid Medicare

provided low-cost medical insurance for most Americans age 65 and older

Entitlements – programs people are entitled too once they meet certain requirement.

Medicare and Medicaid Medicaid

provided low-cost health insurance for poor Americans of any age who could not afford their own provide health insurance

Entitlements – programs people are entitled too once they meet certain requirement.

Medicare provided low-cost

medical insurance for most Americans age 65 and older

Immigration ReformThe Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 eliminated “national-origins” quota The new system:

Doubled (to 290,000) the number of immigrants allowed to enter annually

Limited immigrants from the Western Hemisphere (120,000)

Allowed the admission of close relatives of U.S. citizens outside of those limits

Shifted heavy immigration from Europe to Latin America and Asia (changing the ethnic composition of

the U.S.)

Proponents: Poverty was cut in half

from the early 1960s to 1970s

Antipoverty programs improved the educational performance of underprivileged youth (Project Head Start)

Infant mortality rates fell in minority communities as health conditions improved

Proponents: Poverty was cut in half from

the early 1960s to 1970s Antipoverty programs

improved the educational performance of underprivileged youth (Project Head Start)

Infant mortality rates fell in minority communities as health conditions improved

Critics: Too many American tax

dollars were being spent on poor people

It put too much authority in the hands of the government

Production Possibility Curve

Circle the point on the production possibility curve that represents the U.S. during The Great Society.