Kennedy/Johnson

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• Kennedy/Johnson
• The Promise and Substance of Kennedys New
  Frontier
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Assassination of a President
• Assessing Womens Rights
• Johnson Fulfills the Kennedy Promise
• Great Society War on Poverty

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Cuban Missile Crisis

• Castro confiscated properties, nationalized some
  American businesses, demanded rise in price of
  sugar and amount of exports trade embargo
  enacted by Eisenhower administration towards the
  end of 1960
• Castro turned towards Soviet Union who promised
  to buy 100 million in sugar over 5 years
• America trained Cuban exiles who had fled to
  Guatemala to invade Cuba air strikes began on
  15 April and Cuban air force was attacked. The
  air backup for the exiles was suddenly withdrawn
  as the exiles moved in on 17 April 1961 ended
  on 19 April 1961 100 dead, prisoners, later
  ransomed
• 1961-1962 Soviets giving Cuba weapons equipped
  with ballistic missiles aimed at USA

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Cuban Missile Crisis

• First sights of missiles 14 October 1962 medium
  range and intermediate range
• All major US cities in East and Midwest targets
  Kennedy had to act air raid, naval blockade,
  and land invasion? All considerations 16 October
  1962. Advisors divided. Some wanted blockage,
  then air, some both, some none.
• 22 October USA Naval blockade commences, JFK
  addresses nation
• 26 October Khrushchev offered to withdraw
  missiles if no invasion 27 October Cubans shot
  down a US spy plane
• 28 October tensions subsided Soviets later
  withdrew missiles, USA withdrew some from Turkey
• Closest the world came to nuclear war

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Women and Politics

• John F. Kennedy
• Assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson
• Presidents Commission on the Status of Women
• Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt
• Findings in October 1963 showed
• Women discriminated against in workplace
• Economically
• Politically
• Results? Rebirth of political activism and the
  feminist movement

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Women and Politics

• 1966 NOW
• The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring
  women into full participation in the mainstream
  of American society now, exercising all the
  privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly
  equal partnership with men.
• 1968 Miss America Protests
• Subjugation of women
• Lack of diversity
• Protested Cosmopolitan, bras, makeup

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Death of a President November 1963
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• New Opportunities and Dangers
• Moving toward Détente with the Soviet Union and
  China

• Nixons Search for Peace with Honor in Vietnam
• Vietnam
• The Peace Accords

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Start Vietnam film
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• Constitutional Crisis and Restoration
• The Election of 1972
• Watergate
• The Ford Presidency and the Election of 1976

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• Ronald Reagan and the
• Conservative Ascendancy
• Appealing to the New Right and Beyond
• Unleashing Free Enterprise
• Winners and Losers in a Flourishing Economy

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• Ronald Reagan Confronts an
• Evil Empire
• Militarization
• The Iran-Contra Scandal
• A Thaw in Soviet-American Relations

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• Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval The
  Presidency of George H. W. Bush
• The End of the Cold War
• Going to War in Persian Gulf
• The 1992 Election

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• The Clinton Administrations Search for the
  Middle Ground
• Clintons Promise of Change
• Changing the Face of Government
• The Clinton Administration Moves Right
• Impeaching the President
• The Booming Economy of the 1990s

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• President George W. Bush
• The Globalization of Terrorism
• Unilateralism, Preemption, and the Iraq War