Chapter 28: The New Frontier and the Great Society

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Chapter 28 The New Frontier and the Great Society

• 1960 Presidential Election
• Mass. Senator John F. Kennedy (Demo.)
• Vice-President Richard Nixon (Rep.)
• JFK Issues
• Age 2nd youngest president inexperienced/terrible
  health
• Religion first catholic president
• Father Joseph Kennedy/money

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2 Events Impact Election

• Four televised debates first time in U.S.
  history
• Message Nixon won
• Image JFK won (70 million viewers)
• Civil Rights/Dr. King arrested in Atlanta in
  October
• No action by Nixon
• JFK calls Coretta King
• RFK got judge to release Dr. King on bail
• Wins black vote for JFK

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Election Results

• JFK 303 (34,227,000) 49.9
• Nixon 219 (34,108,000) 49.8
• Kennedy Administration New Frontier
• Cuba
• 1959 Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista
  and establishes Cuba as a communist nation

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April 17, 1961 The Bay of Pigs Invasion

• CIA trained Cubans try to invade Cuba and
  overthrow Castro
• 1,400 commandos overwhelmed by 20,000 Cuban
  troops. Kennedy refuses to use U.S. military as
  promised. Complete failure!
• JFK and U.S. embarrassed. U.S. pays 53 million
  in supplies for return of captured commandos

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October 14-28, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

• October 14 U-2 photographs show USSR nuclear
  missile bases in Cuba
• October 22 JFK announces missile bases in Cuba
  to U.S. public
• October 24 JFK declares a naval quarantine
  (blockade) of Cuba
• October 25 Soviet ships on their way to Cuba
  stop and turn around
• October 28 JFK Khrushchev Deal
• USSR remove missile bases
• USA promise to not invade Cuba/overthrow Castro
• USA secret deal to remove U.S. missiles in
  Turkey
• Closest that US/USSR came to nuclear war

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November 22, 1963 Dallas, Texas

• President Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey
  Oswald. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the new
  president.
• LBJ Administration The Great Society
• Former Senate majority leader from Texas
• Excellent politician and dealing with Congress

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Great Society War on Poverty

• End poverty and racial injustice
• Create a higher standard of living
• Promote a richer quality of life
• Impact of Great Society
• Helps millions of Americans (many programs still
  in effect today)
• Destroyed by Vietnam War

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