JFK and the new deal lesson 3

Election of 1960

Kennedy wins very close election

takes a hard line on communism

WHat were the religious issues in the election of 1960

JFK was Catholic – controversial. Never has a President been Catholic

Impact of television in the 1960 election

TV helped JFK win the election – seen as handsome and personable. Nixon seen as old and “cold”

Who led the Cuban Revolution

Fidel Castro

Bay of Pigs

-Cuban exiles to try to overthrow Castro

-U.S. gives exiles military aid

-Attack at the Bay of Pigs is a great failure for U.S. and CIA

-embarrassment to the U.S. and Kennedy

-Cuba turns to USSR for more aid

Cuban Resolution

-turns to communist system

-confiscated lands of large corporations

-trade barriers set

-seen as threat to the U.S.

-many Cubans go into exile

Berlin Wall

-Soviets want East Germany recognized as new nation

-wall built to separate East and West

-seem as symbol of communism

Cuban Missile Crisis

Soviets place missiles in Cuba armed and aimed at U.S.

-Oct. 1962

-U.S. spy planes get intelligence**

-Kennedy demanded removal

(U.S. puts missiles in Turkey and aims at Soviet Union)

-U.S. blockades Cuba

-brink of war – Highest during Cold War era

USSR backs down

Hotline established between leaders

Red phone

New Frontier

-medical care for the poor, urban renewal, education – goals of New Frontier***

-Congress resisted his programs like Truman’s

-Kennedy took very few political risks

lacked a voter’s mandate

did very little for poverty or civil rights in first years

Peace Corp created, 1961*

volunteer program to help poverty stricken nations

Alliance for Progress

program designed to give aid to poverty stricken Latin American nations

1963 saw a new Kennedy that

pushed for civil rights, end to poverty, lower taxes**

What started the space race?

Sputnik

Who was the first man in space

Alan Shepherd

first to orbit

John Glenn

Neil Armstrong

 first on the moon July 20, 1969

Whenw as Kennedy asasinated

-Nov. 22, 1963 Dallas **

Texas school book depositary

sight where Lee Harvey Oswald shot kennedy

After JFK died who became president?

LBJ