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The 1960s:  Kennedy’s New Frontier The 1960s:  Kennedy’s New Frontier

The 1960s:  Kennedy’s New Frontier - PowerPoint Presentation

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The 1960s:  Kennedy’s New Frontier - PPT Presentation

The 1960s  Kennedys New Frontier amp Johnsons 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 ID: 770533

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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." Significance: Kennedy proved unable to win passage of many of the items on his agenda -Medicare -programs to rebuild the inner cities -increase federal funding for education. -Congress increased the minimum wage $1.00-$1.25 -Kennedy also expanded Social Security benefits -$4.9 billion available in federal grants to cities for mass transit, open spaces, & middle-income housing.

Bay of Pigs April 17, 1961 Who: 2,000 Cubans who had gone into exile after the 1959 revolutionWhere: At the Bay of Pigs, CubaWhat: This was an unsuccessful invasion by those Cuban exiles who believed that they would have air & naval support from the U.S. & that the invasion would cause the people of Cuba to rise up & overthrow the regime of communist Fidel Castro. Neither expectation materialized, although unmarked planes from Florida bombed Cuban air bases prior to the invasion. Cuban army troops pinned down the exiles & forced them to surrender within 72 hours. Significance: Before & after the invasion, the U.S. promoted the expulsion of Cuba from the Organization of American States, attempted an unsuccessful diplomatic quarantine of Cuba, & stopped all Cuban exports from entering the U.S.  Economic and diplomatic estrangement remained American policy toward Communist Cuba for the indefinite future.  The Bay of Pigs invasion, organized by the CIA, was a crushing blow & staggering embarrassment to the U.S. and the Kennedy administration.

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/videos#cuban-missile-crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis (14 days in October, 1962)Who:            Kennedy & Khrushchev What:           Khrushchev deployed Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.  Kennedy rejected Air Force proposals for a “surgical” bombing strike against the missile-launching sites, & on October 22, he ordered a naval “quarantine” of Cuba & demanded immediate removal of the threatening weaponry.  U.S. Navy warships were sent to blockade the Cuban coast.   On October 28, Khrushchev agreed to a partially face-saving compromise, by which he would pull the missiles out of Cuba. The U.S. in return agreed to end the quarantine & not invade the island. The American government also signaled that it would remove from Turkey some of its own missiles targeted on the Soviet Union. Significance: Nuclear war was a possibility at the time.   Kennedy faced Khrushchev, & Khrushchev blinked 1st. This was a very serious Cold War crisis.

Kennedy Assassination 12:30 p.m. CST on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealy Plaza in Dallas TXKennedy was fatally shot while traveling with the 1st Lady, Texas governor John Connally, & the 1st Lady of TX, in a Presidential motorcade.The 10 month investigation by the Warren Commission concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey OswaldJack Ruby killed Oswald before he could stand trial. These conclusions were initially supported by the American public; however, polls conducted from 1966 to 2004 found that as many as 80% of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover up.

LBJ Becomes President (1963-1969) Lyndon Baines Johnson became President because he was JFK’s VP LBJ was able to get most of JFK’s policies pushed through Congress, including a tax-cut that the Senate rejected from KennedyJohnson ran for a full term in 1964 against Barry GoldwaterGoldwater was a Conservative from AZ & was too far right

The “Johnson Treatment” "It was an incredible blend of badgering, cajolery, reminders of past favors, promises of future favors, predictions of gloom if something doesn't happen. When that man started to work on you, all of a sudden, you just felt that you were standing under a waterfall and the stuff was pouring on you."

The Great Society 1965 Who :                Lyndon Baines JohnsonWhat:               This was a political slogan used by LBJ to identify his legislative program of national reform. In his first State of the Union message the president proclaimed his vision of a “Great Society” and declared a “war on poverty.” He called for an enormous program of social welfare legislation including:1)  Head Start: federal support for education (an antipoverty program), 2) Medicare: health care for the aged through an expanded Social Security Program (Medicare for the elderly & Medicaid for the poor)3)  federal protection for citizens deprived of the vote by state voter registration (Voting Rights Act of 1965) 4)  immigration reform (dropped the national origins quota test first established in the Emergency Quota Act of 1921).                       

Cont. Significance:    The War on Poverty, & the Great Society of which it was a part, left a mixed legacy. They were responsible for the most important legal protections of civil rights since the 1860s; they permanently expanded the American welfare and social insurance system &they gave the federal govt important new responsibilities in areas such as the environment, education, & the arts. The largest Great Society programs—Medicare & Medicaid—proved to be highly inefficient; they ultimately became 2 of the most costly items in the federal budget. The Vietnam War took support away from these programs after they were enacted