JFK & LBJ

• Kennedy learned that the CIA was training about 1,500 Cuban exiles in Central America to invade Cuba.
• Eisenhower was doing this in hopes of overthrowing Cuba's dictator Fidel Castro.
• The invasion was a disaster according to the New York Times
• Kennedy denied the story and the invasion began.
• Castro was prepared and ready.
• The US had some misfires and Kennedy had to cancel additional air strikes.
• First attack 4/15/1961
• This invasion did not eliminate the threat of communism to the US. It helped Castro with his ties to the Soviet Union (it made them stronger)

• Image and Reality
• photos showed him healthy, engaged in physical activity like sailing and swimming
• in reality, he was suffering from Addisons disease (fatigue and painful) and a bad back
• Jacqueline, his wife and the children contributed to the sense of glamour and energy.
• Kennedy and Congress (rough relationship)
• Many of Kennedy's proposals were blocked
• Area Redevelopment Act in 1961- gave financial assistance to economically distressed regions.
• Space Program:
• We won- first nation- people on the moon

On 22 November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was a passenger in a motorcade through the centre of Dallas, Texas. At about 12:30pm, the motorcade was in Dealey Plaza, just outside the downtown area, when several gunshots were fired.

Altogether, three people were injured:

President Kennedy was wounded in the back and the throat, and, fatally, in the head.

The governor of Texas, John Connally, who was sitting directly in front of Kennedy, sustained three wounds: one bullet hit him in the back, destroyed four inches of one rib, punctured his right lung, and came out of the right side of his chest; his right wrist was shattered;

and a fragment of a bullet was embedded in his left thigh.

To Do:

• Go to page 550 -551 and answer questions 1-4 on your own paper
• Mini- Essay:
• Use the documents and compare and contrast Kennedy's New Frontier to Johnson's Great Society
• cite the doc you use.

JFK & LBJ

The Berlin Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis

For the Video, write down the dates of the crisis in your notes as well as the agreement that was made to resolve the problem.

New Frontier

• Berlin was a problem for the Soviet Union.
• West Berlin was free
• East Germans would escape to West Berlin and be safe.
• "Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin."
• 6/26/1963

Foreign Policy

• The Peace Corps was the most successful part of his policy to help poorer nations.
• The Alliance for Progress was another aspect of his policy.
• offered billions of dollars in aide to build schools, hospitals, roads, and low-cost housing, and power plants in Latin America.
• Developed the strategy of flexible response:
• strengthening conventional American forces so that the nation would have other options instead of nuclear weapons.

Write what is in Blue

John F. Kennedy becomes president.

Notes are in Yellow.

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Write what is in Blue

• Kennedy and Nixon had 4 televised debates.
• Kennedy spoke with ease and authority.
• He represented America's future.
• Nixon was more tied to the past via his connections to Eisenhower.
• Kennedy used the term "New Frontier" for his campaign.
• frontiers of the mind, the will, and the spirit of the man.
• Was the youngest and first Catholic elected president.

Notes are in Yellow

Kennedy and MLK

• MLK getting arrested in GA aided Kennedy.
• Kennedy phoned Coretta to express his concerns.
• Kennedy's brother, Robert Kennedy persuaded the judge to let king out on bail.
• King's father said he was going to vote for Nixon but that call made him change his mind.
• JFK's campaign printed 2 million leaflets to tell the story to African American churches the Sunday before the election day

LBJ Key Acts

Know these!! *Hint

Civil Rights Act 1964:

Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public

Voting Rights Act 1965:

Federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the Civil Rights Movement on August 6, 1965

Assassination

Write what is in Black!