1. The Kennedy & Johnson Years Unit 5 Lesson 5 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

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

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

8. Foreign Affairs – A Flexible Response 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 Cuban Missile Crisis

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?

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. Great Society- End poverty and racial injustice, promote higher quality of life for all. 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 Environment al & Consumer Protections

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?