New Frontier/Great Society

3 People in JFK’s Cabinet

Robert Kennedy- Attorney General
Dean Rusk- Sec. of State

Robert McNamara- Sec. of Def.

Bay of Pigs

-authorized by Eisenhower (1500 exiles)

-Castro was seizing American businesses, leaning communist

-reporters put out a week early, a plane flew to Florida

-big JFK failure, hurt his reputation

-Strengthened Cuba-soviet ties

Berlin Crisis

people were escaping east berlin easily, so Khrushchev put up a big wall surrounding berlin, trapping people

JFK: “Better a wall than a war”

Cuban Missile Crisis

-US had missiles in Turkey, Soviets put them in Cuba.

-Ex-Comm decided to put a naval blockade (technically a quarantine to avoid an act of war)

-US agreed to never invade Cuba. In return, Soviets took out the missiles in Cuba.
Soviet-US hotline & Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

New Frontier

Nasa

resolve issues with Soviets

Civil Rights

Poverty help

Chief Justice Warren

appointed by Eisenhower, was a Californian Governor

Worked on all of the court cases for civil rights and things

investigated Lee Harvey Oswald

How did LBJ combat poverty?

Tax cuts to the impoverished

job corps (Job training for those who haven’t finished highschool)

VISTA- Volunteers in Service to America (domestic Peace Corps)

Differentiate LBJ and Goldwater

Goldwater was a conservative republican, warhawk, hands-off government style leader, some consider extremist. Anti- Great Society

LBJ is democratic, great society, helping hands government.

What was the outcome of the Election of 1964?

LBJ won in a landslide— 61% of the popular vote

What did the Great society focus on?

War on poverty

Environmental help

Housing

Civil Rights

Education Reform

What was the Great Society’s Impact?

Set the stage for civil rights progression in the future, (unsure what else)

How did the Great Society decline?

Republicans gained seats in Senate and House, enabling them to deny more of his policies.

His eagerness into the Vietnam involvement scared a lot of people, making him lose a lot of support.

Brandenburg v. Ohio

illegal to advocate for or directly cause violence in a public speech. (Limits free speech)

Brown v. BoE

Desegregated schools

Reynolds v. Sims

Districts proportional to their population

Mapp v. Ohio

illegally obtained evidence can’t be used to convict of a crime

Gideon v. Wainwright

everyone has the right to a lawyer

Engel v. Vitale

separate church & state (in schools especially).

Terry v. Ohio

Stop and frisk (pat down) is allowed within reasonable suspicion

Miranda v. Arizona

you must be told of your rights/ right to remain silent

Johnson Doctrine

would intervene in Vietnam/Latin America if they lead to communism