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Kennedy and Johnson Introduction Kennedy
Election Policy
The Third World Space Race Civil Rights
Assassination Econ 101 – Guns and Butter Johnson
Election of 1964 Great Society
Bellwork Compare the
presidential portrait of JFK with the portraits of other presidents . What does this portrait tell us about Kennedy?
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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
Results of the Election of 1960 Kennedy won Youngest president (43) First Catholic Last Dem. to win south and Af. Am. vote
Kennedy and Johnson Introduction Kennedy
Election Policy
The Third World Space Race Civil Rights
Assassination Econ 101 – Guns and Butter Johnson
Election of 1964 Great Society
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 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 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
Kennedy and Johnson Introduction Kennedy
Election Policy
The Third World Space Race Civil Rights
Assassination Econ 101 – Guns and Butter Johnson
Election of 1964 Great Society
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
Kennedy and Johnson Introduction Kennedy
Election Policy
The Third World Space Race Civil Rights
Assassination Econ 101 – Guns and Butter Johnson
Election of 1964 Great Society
Civil Rights Act March on Birmingham May 2, 1963 Marches attacked by police June 11
Kennedy demanded passage of Civil Rights Act
Kennedy and Johnson Introduction Kennedy
Election Policy
The Third World Space Race Civil Rights
Assassination Econ 101 – Guns and Butter Johnson
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
Kennedy and Johnson Introduction Kennedy
Election Policy
The Third World Space Race Civil Rights
Assassination Econ 101 – Guns and Butter Johnson
Election of 1964 Great Society
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.
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?
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.
Kennedy and Johnson Introduction Kennedy
Election Policy
The Third World Space Race Civil Rights
Assassination Econ 101 – Guns and Butter Johnson
Election of 1964 Great Society
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
Kennedy and Johnson Introduction Kennedy
Election Policy
The Third World Space Race Civil Rights
Assassination Econ 101 – Guns and Butter Johnson
Election of 1964 Great Society
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.
Kennedy and Johnson Introduction Kennedy
Election Policy
The Third World Space Race Civil Rights
Assassination Econ 101 – Guns and Butter Johnson
Election of 1964 Great Society
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