1. JFK Wins

2. Characteristics of John F. Kennedy • Family • Education • Military Service • Political Career • Election of 1960

3. Election of 1960 • Televised debates • Age and Religion • Major issues • Youngest president ever elected • First Catholic president • VP was Lyndon B. Johnson • Promised to get the Country moving again

4. Kennedy as Author • Wrote two books: • Why England Slept • Profiles in Courage • Won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Profiles in Courage in 1957

5. The New Frontier • Definition • Program Contents • Opposition • Advisers • Inaugural Address

6. The New Administration • Youngest Cabinet Ever • Dean Rusk • Robert Kennedy • Robert McNamara • Wanted to bring new ideas and new methods to the Executive Branch • Theodore Sorenson

7. Learning Hard Lessons

8. Conference at Vienna • Berlin issue (again) • Treaty threatened • JFK met Khrushchev in Vienna, Austria • Talks did not go well.

9. Berlin Wall • Divided Berlin—East (Communist) and West (Democratic) • Soviet Union built a wall to stop people from leaving East Berlin

10. Flexible Response • JFK’s foreign policy • Created by Dean Rusk • Alternative to using atomic bombs

11. Alliance for Progress • Latin American Program • Latin version of The Marshall Plan • Renewed popularity of the US

12. Peace Corps • Volunteer agency to help under privileged people of the world

13. Facing Communist Challenges

14. Cuban Missile Crisis • The Soviet Union was secretly building missile bases in Cuba. • Atomic Missiles would be able to reach the US within minutes • “Strict Quarantine”

15. The End Result • Lasted 13 days • Was the Closest we came to a nuclear war with Russia • A compromise was formed

16. Test-Ban Treaty • Soviet Union, Great Britain, and US decided to stop testing nuclear bombs in the atmosphere, outer space, or under water • Five Countries with nuclear weapons • 131 countries signed the treaty • 2 countries refused

17. A New Frontier

18. Failures • Federal Education Bill • Social Security for Medical Care • Income Tax Reduction

19. Some Successes • Housing Act 1961 • Minimum wage • Area Redevelopment Act • 24th Amendment • Tariff Reduction • Putting a Man on the Moon

20. State of the Economy • Successes helped end recession that began in 1960. • Unemployment still remained high

21. Problem of Poverty • “The Other America” • JFK began to plan a war on poverty

22. Civil Rights • JFK desegregated housing projects • Robert Kennedy—in charge of ensuring blacks rights to vote • Thurgood Marshall—first appointed black Supreme Court Judge (by JFK) • James Meredith—first black Air Force veteran that was denied entry in an all-white university

23. Black Revolt • “Freedom Riders” • In 1961, the ICC banned discrimination in bus terminals • Sits ins, demonstrations • Governor Wallace—fought to keep segregation in Alabama

24. JFK knew there were bitter feelings in Dallas Shot in a motorcade Lee Harvey Oswald A Tragic End

25. The Warren Commission • Chief Justice Earl Warren spent nine months investigating the murder • Commission failed to pursue other leads and ruled that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby had acted alone

26. Legacy of the Kennedy Years • Created a new uplifted spirit among the people • Showed the world that the US would not lack new young leaders