JFK – LBJ Foreign an Domestic issuse

1. JFK – LBJ Foreign an Domestic issuse

2. Kennedy and Johnson Years 1960 - 1968 JFK and LBJ   • The New ____________ was figurative and literal in its meaning. In its literal meaning, the New Frontier was going to be ______________. In its figurative meaning, the New Frontier was going to end _________________ in the U.S., working towards the acceptance of ________________ Frontier Outer-Space Poverty Diversity

3. JFK Domestic:   A. The Election of 1960   1. JFK was behind in all major polls.   2. He challenges Nixon to the first ever ______ debate.   a. JFK hires experts on film, lighting, wardrobe, etc. b. Nixon kicks the snot out of JFK in the debate if you read the transcript. However, Nixon looks like he is going to pass out. c. Thanks to looking good, ______of the people changed their vote to ________. T.V. 57% JFK

4. JFK wins by ____________ popular votes while ______ million people cast their • votes. The ____________ ___________ vote was much different: 303 to 219. (If people wanted to do away with the electoral college, what would it take? 120,000 34 Electoral College An Amendment to the Constitution

5. The Promise of Camelot • 1. Kennedy thought he could use his power as President to make things right. Is the President all powerful? Why or Why not? • 2. Young and energetic. Everyone thought JFK and his wife were a beautiful couple. • 3. JFK tended to be stubborn in his policy making. He will be ____________in his foreign policy (He takes us to the brink of _____________war) No Checks and Balances Aggressive Nuclear

6. Economic Programs: (JFK vs. Republican led _________________) •   1. New Frontier : 2/5 of our population was below the _____________level   • 2. Pushes Congress to cut _________ on the poor (Congress votes ____)   • 3. Pushes to grant direct aid to the poor (Congress votes ______) • 4. Space Program increases spending into _________(Congress votes ________) Congress Poverty NO Taxes NO NASA YES

7. JFK decided to attack big business (Due to actions of the __________________ Congress)   • 1. U.S. Steel was price fixing steel (This was Andrew ___________ old company.   • 2. JFK threatens to take them to court and use the _____________ Anti Trust Law against them.   • 3. U.S. Steel backs down, but _________________in Congress get ticked off with JFK   • 4. JFK pushes for another tax cut to stimulate ______________ up recovery and the Republican Congress this time votes _______   • 5. Because JFK constantly fought with Congress and big business, he never sees the figurative ________ ______________ in action. Republican Carnegie’s Clayton Republicans bottom NO New Frontier

8. JFK started compromising in 1963, but too _________ too __________. JFK will be • _____________________ • 1. The greatest domestic legacy of JFK, was how much money was pumped into ___________and the space program. • 2. JFK did a great deal of work for the mentally handicapped as well as starting up the ____________________________ for the physically handicapped. • 3. JFK made it possible for the U.S. to beat the U.S.S.R. to the moon in ______ just as JFK said we would “by the end of the decade”. Little Late Assassinated NASA Special Olympics 1969

9. F. The Assassination of JFK   1. Most people who lived and can remember the time, will never forget where they were November 22, 1963.   2. Oswald single shooter concept or Conspiracy, multiple shooters concept? The answer is 3. Due to the tensions of the Cold War, the nation fears that it does not have a second in command (Vice President). To solve this, soon after the assassination, the _______Amendment is passed. This states that if there is a vacancy in the Vice Presidency, the current President must pick a new Vice President which must be approved by ____________. No Body Knows_(Oswald was later assassinated) 25th Congress

10. LBJ Domestic • The ________ ___________ was LBJ’s war on ____________.   • A. LBJ’s Character was just as _________as JFK, but he new how to wheel and • ________ with Congress.   • B. The ________ Society was LB J’s War on ________________.   Johnson gets • “__________________” tax cuts for the poor through after he promised to cut • _______________. Great Society Poverty tough Deal Great Poverty Kennedy’s Spending

11. 2. The War on _____Poverty__ a. Economic Opportunity Act (1964) - This created today’s ____Welfare_____ Programs. b. Created __VISTA____ (Volunteers in Service to __America__ (This is very much like George Bush’s ___Americorps___ today. Both programs are like the _Peace__ Corps, except it focuses on the U.S. c. Medicare tried to provide healthcare to the __Elderly____ d. LBJ carried out another one of JFK’s dream as he pumped money into ___Education (Especially Science and Math)___. e. In order to create all these programs, he had to give something to big business / Republicans. In the end, he created the __Immigration_____ Act of 1965. ***This opened the U.S. for more immigration getting rid of the old 1920’s ____Quota___ systems against Southern and Eastern __Europeans____. It ended the ___Chinese_____ Exclusion Act. It ended the __Gentlemens___ Agreement between us and _Japan_. (Why would big business want to open up immigration again? __Lower the price of labor / wages______.

12. 3. During LBJ’s presidency, there was a very active Supreme Court, known as the __Warren__ Court, named after Chief Justice __Earl_____ __Warren____. a. _Brown______ v. Board of Education in Topeka Kansas decided that all public ____Schools_______ must _Desegregate__ a. _Brown______ v. Board of Education in Topeka Kansas decided that all public _Schools__ must _Desegregate__ b. Gideon v. Wainwright stated that if you could not afford a _Lawyer_____, one must be appointed to you. c. Escobedo v. Illinois stated that individuals that are accused had the right to an ___Attorney____ while they were being questioned. d. Miranda v. Arizona states that a suspect must be warned of his or her __Rights___ before being questioned. e. Griswold v. Connecticut: This case was about a couple that wanted to use contraception, but it was outlawed in their state (__Connecticut___). The Supreme Court used the _9th__ Amendment to state that all U.S. Citizens have a new right to __Privacy____.

13. MORE CHIEF JUSTICE _________ ____________ CASES EARL WARREN f. Engel v. Vitale stated that you could not have a public _School___ led _Prayer___ g. Each of these Warren Court cases focused on the rights of ___Individuals________. Many of them focused on the rights of the ____Accused______.

14. III. Foreign Policy of the 1960’s JFK and LBJ Foreign Policy: (A continuation of the _______War and the foreign policy of _________________) Cold Containment • Kennedy’s approach.   • 1. Provide more aid to developing countries than the __________ __________ Soviet Union a. Alliance for Progress: Sent ________ and Money to impoverished nations to prevent _____________________ Revolutions. Food Communist b. _____________ Corps: Sent aid in the form of ____________ as young volunteers taught people of third world countries reading, writing, and ____________________ Peace Education Farming

15. 2. Global Crises and military conflict a. Vietnam: Eisenhower was the first President to send in advisors, but JFK starts the policy of ____________________ as every President after him, up to LBJ and Nixon, will constantly increase the number of troops in Vietnam. Escalation b. The Bay of ______ invasion starts JFK’s foreign policy off on the wrong foot.   -The CIA informs JFK of a plan to overthrow Fidel _________ in _____________   -JFK gives the go-ahead, but pulls out U.S. naval support at the last second which dooms the __________________ force   -Khruschev calls Americans imperialistic and denounces _____ Pigs Castro Cuba Invasion JFK

16. Khruschev uses the Bay of Pigs invasion as an excuse to put up the • ____________ ___________. JFK responds by going to Berlin and stating Ich • bin ein ________________ (I am a jelly doughnut?) JFK is demonstrating that he • will not back down. Berlin Wall Berliner • Cuban _______________ Crises: - The ____________ _____________ places missile installations in Cuba   • -U2 spy planes find them   • -JFK takes the U.S. the closest the world has come to _______________ War, thankfully the USSR backed down. Missile Soviet Union Nuclear

18. Two positive results come from the Cuban Missile Crises. • -A ”_________________” is placed in D.C. and Moscow • -Limited Test Ban Treaty: Banned above ground testing of • _________________ Weapons. HOT - LINE Nuclear B. LBJ’s Approach (continued the foreign policy of ___________________) Containment • Trouble in _______________. The Panamanians wanted the right to fly their • flag over the canal. LBJ negotiates peace over the ____________.   • LBJ used force in the Dominican Republic as he sent ____________ Marines to stop what he wrongly thought was a ________________ revolution. • After looking at the policies of LBJ and JFK in Latin America, it could be stated that FDR’s _________ ____________________ policy is over as we seek to limit __________________ Revolutions and later _________ Lords in South America.   • 4. The ______________ theory in South East Asia (if one country falls to _____________________ they will all fall) forces LBJ to use JFK’s ____________________ policy in Vietnam. He will increase our troops in Vietnam to over 500,000 men and women. Panama Phone 2,000 Communist Good Neighbor Communist Drug Domino Communism Escalation