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Analyzing the Kennedy and Johnson Years: Successes, Failures, and the Great Society

This lesson explores the achievements and setbacks of President John F. Kennedy’s "New Frontier" domestic program, including its initiatives and failures in foreign affairs. It assesses the profound impact of JFK's assassination on the United States during the early 1960s. Additionally, it outlines President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" goals aimed at combating poverty and promoting civil rights, while evaluating the consequences of government policies and the shift in public perception during this transformative era.

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Analyzing the Kennedy and Johnson Years: Successes, Failures, and the Great Society

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  1. The Kennedy & Johnson Years Unit 5 Lesson 6 Chpt 29

  2. Objectives: • Evaluate successes and failures of Kennedy’s “New Frontier” domestic program. • Review JFK’s blunders in foreign affairs. • Analyze impact of his assassination on America in early 1960’s. • Identify the goals of Johnson’s “Great Society” program.

  3. Warm Up • What were the Presidential plans for the 1950s? • Truman’s “Fair Deal” • Reconversion/Readjustment • Eisenhower’s “Modern Republicanism” • $ Conservative/Social Liberal • Limit fed power

  4. Review • What were some of the major events from the 1950s? • Rock n Roll • Desegregation • Sputnik & NASA • McCarthyism • Alaska & Hawaii

  5. 1960 Election • (D) John F. Kennedy • (R) Richard Nixon • Televised Debates • Issues? • Impact? • JFK wins…no popular mandate • Reading

  6. A New Frontier… • New opportunities in technology, science, space, and social relations. • Young, competent advisors eager to fix America… • “Camelot”

  7. Accomplishments Expand Soc Sec Raise min wage Housing Act 1961 24th Amend (poll tax) Space Program Opposition Civil Rights legislation Tax cuts (some, not all he wanted) New Frontier

  8. Goals Reduce risk of nuclear war Encourage nations to align with US Accomplishments Peace Corps Alliance for Progress LTBT Failures Bay of Pigs Berlin Crisis (Wall) Cuban Missile Crisis Foreign Affairs – A Flexible Response

  9. Tragedy Strikes • Nov 22, 1963 • Dallas, TX • Assassinated (by Lee Harvey Oswald…who’s assassinated by Jack Ruby) • VP LBJ sworn in • Warren Commission • Zapruder films • Oswald & Ruby acted alone

  10. A Grieving Nation • What effect did JFK’s assassination have on the American Dream? • Reading

  11. Who was LBJ? • Ambitious • Focused • Experienced

  12. Kennedy’s Legacy • Pass tax-cut and civil rights bills • 1964 Economic Opportunity Act • VISTA, Job Corps, Head Start

  13. 1964 Election • (D) LBJ • (R) Barry Goldwater • LBJ Landslide

  14. Poverty EOA Medicare (old) Medicaid (poor) Urban Dvpt Omnibus Housing Dept HUD Gun & Crime Control Discrimination Civil Rights Act 64 Voting Rights Act 65 Education Elem/Sec Educ Act Higher Educ Act Environmental & Consumer Protections Great Society- End poverty and racial injustice, promote higher quality of life for all.

  15. Liberal Warren Ct Supports Reforms • Baker v Carr – reapportion voting districts 4 equal rep • Expand Rights of Accused • Mapp- exclusionary evidence • Gideon- free counsel • Escobedo- counsel at ? • Miranda- read rights • Limit gov’t power, equal protection under law!

  16. Impact & Evaluation • War on Poverty? • Tax Cuts? • Growing role fed govt + growing deficit = conservative backlash • Vietnam begins to overshadow

  17. Activity: • Kennedy and Johnson Years

  18. Closure • Would you define JFK and LBJ as successful presidents or not?

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