1. 24.1 – THE NEW FRONTIER & THE GREAT SOCIETY (1961-1968)
Presidents JFK and LBJ launched programs designed to end poverty and racism through gov’t action
Largest increase in the role of the federal gov’t since FDR’s New Deal

2. 24.1 – ELECTION OF 1960 JFK (D) vs. NIXON (R)
JFK won EC 303 to 219; popular vote by only 119,000 votes out of 68 million
Sept. 26, 1960 – first ever televised presidential debate
Campaign Issues
Economy
Cold war
Catholicism
Missile gap
Fiscal policies
Debate clip VS

3. ELECTION OF 1960 SKITS ROLES – JFK, Nixon, 3 reporters CONTENT:
Each reporter has to ask at least one question (can be to either candidate, as long as each candidate gets at least 1 question directed to them)
Candidates can respond to opponent's answer, but no responses to responses
CONTENT:
a. Religion (Catholic/Quaker)
b. Economy
c. Cold War/Communism
d. Missile Gap
e. Fiscal Policies
f. Experience

4. 24.1 – THE NEW FRONTIER New Frontier – JFK’s plan:
Increase education funding
b. Health insurance for the elderly
c Dept. of Urban Affairs
Plan to combat economic, social, educational…..problems through the power of the federal gov’t
See worksheet for pages

5. 24.1 – THE WARREN COURT Earl Warren
Appointed Chief Justice of the SC in 1953
Issues addressed included...
Reapportionment
Bill of Rights applies to states too/Due process
Separation of church and state

6. 24.2 – JFK – MILITARY STRATEGY
The Cold War was the dominant issue when JFK entered office
Flexible Response – JFK’s plan to deal w/communism
Build up of troops and conventional weapons
Not overdependence on nuclear weapons (Ike)
Expansion of special forces

7. 24.2 – JFK – FOREIGN POLICY
Wanted to change the relationship in Latin America
Economic aid
Prevent rise of leftist gov’ts
Change perception of U.S. in the region
Created the Alliance for Progress – good intentions, mixed results; also created the Peace Corps (int’l)

8. 24.2 – SPACE RACE
1957 – Sputnik
1961 – Yuri Gagarin becomes first to orbit Earth (we are losing the space race!!!!)
JFK announces plan to land a man on the moon by end of the 1960s
1962 – John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the Earth
1965 – launch of the Apollo
1969 – Neil Armstrong walks on the moon (we are winning now!!!)
Neil Armstrong

9. 24.2 – BAY OF PIGS
1959 – Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista gov’t in Cuba
Some of Castro’s steps worried Americans
Established a relationship with the USSR
New land reforms
Seized foreign owned businesses
Eisenhower feared Cuba would be a base for the USSR to spread communism so he authorized a CIA led invasion of Cuba in the hopes that it would lead to a popular uprising
1961 – JFK carried out the invasion; landed at the Bay of Pigs
Total disaster; American looked weak, unorganized, imperialistic….
Fidel Castro

10. 24.2 – BERLIN WALL
Tensions in Germany increased by 1961; Khrushchev demanded:
Western powers “recognize” East Germany
Western powers withdraw from Berlin
JFK refused so NK retaliated by building a wall through Berlin, dividing the city and blocking people from fleeing to the western part of the city
Berlin Wall stood for 30 years a symbol of the Cold War
Youtube clip about the end of the wall
Nikita Khrushchev

11. 24.2 – CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
October 1962 – JFK announced that the Soviet Union had placed long-range missiles in Cuba
Why was this terrifying news at the time?
JFK took the following steps:
Naval blockade to prevent delivery of more missiles
Demanded existing missile sites dismantled
- Verge of nuclear war?

12. 24.2 – CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DEAL CONSEQUENCES
U.S. and USSR agreed to a treaty that banned the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere (1963)
2. Weakened NK’s power in the Soviet Union; lost power soon after
3. Spurred a massive Soviet arms build up (CMC made them look militarily inferior to the U.S.)
1. U.S. Publicly agreed not to invade Cuba and privately agreed to remove its missiles from Turkey 2. USSR agreed to remove their missiles from Cuba

13. 24.2 – ASSASSINATION OF JFK Nov. 22, 1963 Dallas, TX
Shot twice while riding in a motorcade
Lee Harvey Oswald was convicted; killed by Jack Ruby (cover up, conspiracy?)
Warren Commission found that Oswald acted alone
Lee Harvey Oswald

14. ELECTION OF 1964 LYNDON JOHNSON (D) BARRY GOLDWATER (R) Won big
Popular vote – 61%
Electoral College – won 46 states
Conservative from Arizona
Some saw him as too aggressive in regards to foreign policy

15. THE GREAT SOCIETY WHAT WAS IT? LYNDON JOHNSON
LBJ’s plan to help disadvantaged Americans
He wanted to create a better American society; it was not limited to poverty
More than 60 programs that addressed things such as poverty, health care, education, housing, immigration…