Chapter 20 The New Frontier and the Great Society

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Chapter 20 The New Frontier and the Great Society

• Section 1
• Kennedy and the Cold War

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The Election of 1960

• Candidates
• Republican
• Richard M. Nixon
• Democrat
• John F. Kennedy

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What were JFKs strengths and obstacles?

• Strengths
• wealthy family
• well organized campaign
• Handsome
• charismatic

• Obstacles
• youth (inexperienced)
• religion

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The televised debates helped which candidate
more?
That night, image replaced the printed word as
the natural language of politics.
- Russell Baker
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What was the mood in the 1960 Election?

• Restlessness Why?
• The economy was in a recession
• The Soviet launch of Sputnik 1
• The U2 incident and the Cuban alignment with the
  Soviet Union
• Were any of the above concerns be relevant to the
  2008 Election?

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What is a recession?
Peak
Expansion
When a countrys economy declines for 2
successive quarters
Recession
Trough
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Kennedy Takes Command

• How did JFK feel about Eisenhowers foreign
  policy?
• What is flexible response?
• inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation

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Crises Over Cuba
What is significant about Cubas geographic
location?
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Fidel Castro

• Promised Democracy
• Charismatic
• Communism (at our doorstep)
• Soviet Aid
• What are the current
• events in Cuba?

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The Bay of Pigs
In the summer of 1960, President Eisenhower gave
the CIA permission to secretly train hundreds of
Cuban exiles for an invasion of Cuba. Did
President Kennedy carry out this plan? Was this
mission successful?
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The Cuban Missile Crisis (pg. 674)

• Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
• U-2 planes provided evidence (photos) of Soviet
  missile bases on Cuba
• Blockade and staging of forces in Florida
• Who blinked first?
• Ask your grandparents about this crisis

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Cabinet Meeting During the Crisis
What was the mood after the crisis?
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The Berlin Crisis

• Soon after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy was
  forced to turn his attention to a growing problem
  in West Berlin.
• West Berlins prosperous economy made it a
  showcase of democracy.
• Push-Pull Factors
• How many East Germans migrated west?
• What was Khrushchevs answer to this problem?
• Did the wall solve the problem?

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Walls of the Past
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The Berlin Wall
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Tear Down This Wall
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Searching for Ways to Ease Tensions

• Kennedy, in particular, searched for ways to tone
  down his hard-line stance.
• hot line a communication link established in
  1963 to allow the leaders of the United States
  and the Soviet Union to contact each other in
  times of crisis
• Limited Test Ban Treaty the 1963 treaty in
  which the U.S. and U.S.S.R. agreed not to conduct
  nuclear-weapons tests in the atmosphere

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Summary

• 1960 Election
• Cuba
• Berlin