PPT-Kennedy and Khrushchev The United States and the Cold War

Question What factors allowed JFK to win the Election of 1960 What three things were held against JFK while running for President Who did JFK run against in the Election of 1960 What events happened during the Eisenhower Administration that heightened the Cold War. How did Anxieties raised by the Cold War affect life in the United States. ?. Americans come under suspicion at home. Communist Sympathizers. People who believed in Communism but did not join the party. IN THE 1960s, THE 1970s, . AND THE 1980s. Essential Questions. :. What were the important . Cold War events . of the 1960s and 1970s?. . How did the . Cold War end . in the 1980s?. Joseph Stalin . led the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953. missile. crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was an event that occurred during the U.S. and Russia cold war.. This event was a thirteen day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.. Chapter 15.1. Two Sides Face Off. Superpowers-US and USSR. NATO/Warsaw Pact. Iron Curtain-Winston Churchill describing the separation of Western and Eastern Europe. Berlin Wall. Eastern Europe resists USSR. Spring 2012. Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was presented with a plan when he became President of the United States. Goal was to stop communism in Cuba. CIA guaranteed it would be an “easy” win. The Bay of Pigs. Dulles diplomacy. Covert . Ops . Iran . Guatemala . Geneva . Conference of 1954. Suez Crisis . Eisenhower Doctrine. OPEC and Oil . Military Industrial Complex . The National Security Act and NSC 68. Marked a decisive turning point in the US approach to CW as many historians see the report as having “militarized” the US’s approach to the Cold War. . How did Anxieties raised by the Cold War affect life in the United States. ?. Americans come under suspicion at home. Communist Sympathizers. People who believed in Communism but did not join the party. JFK and the cold war. Kennedy confronts global challenges. Kennedy attempted to reduce the threat of nuclear war and to stop the spread of communism with a range of programs.. . -A More Flexible Response. 1960 Election. Economy was slumping, blamed on Republicans. Kennedy v. (Vice President) Nixon. Youth v. experience. Kennedy charmed audiences in first-ever TV debates. Critics suspect Kennedy won (barely) with the help of Mafia connections & “vote-stuffing”. & Johnson’s Great Society. "New Frontier" 1960 . What:.   The New Frontier was the legislative program . Pres. John . F. Kennedy announced when he ran for president in 1960. It called for economic reforms to "get the country moving again." . The 1960s:  Kennedy’s New Frontier & Johnson’s Great Society "New Frontier" 1960 What:   The New Frontier was the legislative program Pres. John F. Kennedy announced when he ran for president in 1960. It called for economic reforms to "get the country moving again." Ideologies of the Cold War Unit 8 Post* WWII and the US Allied leaders FDR , Churchill and Stalin met in February 1945 at the Yalta Conference. They agreed to organization a United Nations and Germany was divided into four zones. The French, Americans and British united their zones in the West and the Russians controlled the East. What do you think the Cold War was? What was an important event from this period of time?. When did the Cold War occur?. 3. What countries were involved?. 4. Who were some major personalities?. World War II ended in 1945,Germany surrendered in May, Japan followed in September.. The United States was also under new leadership from 1953, with the inauguration of President Eisenhower. After twenty years when the Democrats, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, held the presidency, there was now a Republican in the White House. Eisenhower was no ordinary Republican. He was already famous as ‘Ike’ – the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the Second World War. Eisenhower had fought the war alongside Soviet allies in the Grand Alliance; he knew many Soviet generals and diplomats personally. He was determined to formulate new policies to combat Communism in the Cold War; but he was also determined to avoid war, and to hold down the huge expenditures demanded by the arms race with the Soviet Union..