AMH 29: JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford

What are the details of the Election of 1960?

Democratic (303)

• JFK- MA Senator

• LBJ

*Second youngest president at 43

Republican (219)

• Nixon

• Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

When was JFK President?

1961-1963

What was JFK’s domestic policy?

“A New Frontier”

• Provide comprehensive civil rights programs & desegregation

• Expand welfare capitalism & human services

• large tax cut

When was NASA founded due to the Space Race with the USSR?

1958: National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)

What is Apollo 11?

July 20, 1969

• First man on the moon

  • Neil Armstrong

  • Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr.

  • Michael Collins

• The US won the Space Race

What was JFK’s foreign policy?

1. Cuba

2. Operation Pedro Pan

3. Bay of Pigs Invasion

4. Kennedy & Khrushchev

5. Cuban Missile Crisis

Who was Fulgencio Batista?

1940-1944:

• President of Cuba

  • Helped create the Cuban constitution

    • can only serve one term

  • controlling, but did not bother American doings

Where did Batista move in 1945-1947?

Daytona Beach

What did Batista do in 1948 and 1952?

1948: Went back to Cuba, ran for senate and won

1952: ran for president again but didn’t win

• Batista & his supporters threw a successful bloodless coup and named himself president again

What did Fidel Castro do on July 26, 1953?

Was jailed for an attempt to coup the government

• Left Cuba

  • Trained himself and his supporters for another coup

When was Castro’s successful coup?

January 1, 1959

• Marches to Havana and talks of freedom and civil rights

What series of events follows after Castro’s coup?

1959: Castro visits the US

• UN/US liked what he way saying

  • Castro goes back to Cuba, closes all radios, tvs, news,

    • reopens them as publicly controlled

  • No other gov. than him

Feb. 1960: Castro & Khrushchev are besties

• Cuba signed a contract for Soviet petroleum

June 1960: Castro seizes American oil refineries, the all American businesses

What are the two embargoes placed on Cuba by the US?

October 19, 1960: Limited Embargo

→ Under Eisenhower

February 3, 1962: Total Embargo

→ Under JFK

When and what was Operation Pedro Pan?

Dec. 1960-Oct. 1962

• In order to save future generations, the wealthy, would send their children to the US

  • Together the US gov. & Father Walsh got the children a VISA