Chapter 20 section 2

Broad vision of progress Had problems turning vision into reality Could never get enough votes Proposed to Congress Medical care for the aged Rebuild blighted urban areas’ Aid education

Kennedy lacked a popular mandate A clear indication that voters approved of his plans He politically played it safe He was able to persuade congress to Boost the economy Build national defense International aid Fund a massive space program

1960 America was in a recession Unemployment= 6% Kennedy’s advisors will Pushed for deficit spending Roosevelt’s new deal Increase government spending and lower taxes With this Department of defense would receive a 20 % budget increase Increase minimum wage $1.25 an hour

Peace Corps A program of volunteer assistance to the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America “Kennedy’s Kiddie Korps” Some questioned if American’s could understand other cultures ,000 volunteers 60 nations around the world

Alliance for Progress Second foreign aid Offered economic and technical assistance to Latin American Countries

April 12, 1961 Yuri A. Gagarin Frist human being in space Kennedy saw this as a challenge Month later Telstar Relayed live television pictures across the Atlantic Ocean National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Cape Canaveral, Florida Huston, Texas Mission Control center

United States achieved its goals Neil Armstrong Took steps on the Moon

Kennedy is going to focus more closely on the issues at home Most controversial civil rights battles “National assault on the causes of poverty” Will order the Justice Department to investigate racial injustice in the South Robert Kennedy’s

1963 Kennedy was losing his popularity because of his advocacy of civil rights November 22,1963 Air Force one landed in Dallas Came to mend fences with the Democratic Party The President and The Governor were sitting in an “open-air” limousine Shot in the head Tried to revive him

Next four days were tragic Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of the office aboard the presidential airplane World saw the charging of Lee Harvey Oswald

24 years old Ex- marine Dishonorable discharged Lived in the Soviet union Supported Castro They found his palm print on the rifle used to kill President Kennedy November 24 Transferring between jails was shot Jack Ruby

1963 Investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president while acting on his own 1979 Reinvestigated that Oswald had been apart of a conspiracy

Americans knew that their government was very sturdy A crisis that would have crumbled a dictatorship Provided a smooth transition to the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson