New Frontier Chapter 20 Section 2

Progress  Kennedy Broad vision of progress “We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier” Called on Americans to be “New Pioneers”  Science and space  Ignorance and prejudice

Cont.  1960’s ---- Recession Use of deficit spending  Prime the Pump  Lower taxes  Gov. spends more than it is taking in  1961 Proposals to Congress = Increased spending  Department of Defense % budget increase Nuclear missiles, nuclear submarines Expansion of the armed forces  Increase minimum wage to $1.25  Extended unemployment insurances

Poverty Abroad  Peace Corps Program of volunteers created by Kennedy Giving assistance to developing nations  Asia, Africa, and Latin America “Kennedy’s Kiddie Korps”  College students ,000 volunteers around the world

Race to the Moon  April 12, 1961 First human in space --- Soviets Less than a month --- U.S. duplicated  NASA Created new launch facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida Mission Control Center – Houston, Texas 5G1M4EXrQ 5G1M4EXrQ July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong  Took first steps on the moon 11/videos/jfk-sets-goal-for-man-on- moon?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f= 1&free=false

Tragedy  November 22, 1963 Dallas, Texas Mend political fences  State’s Democratic Party Parade = Open–air limousine In the front=Texas Governor John Connally and his wife

Kennedy Assassinated  Approached Texas School Book Depository  Few second later rifle shots range out  Kennedy shot in the head  topics/us- presidents/john-f- kennedy/videos/john-f- kennedy-assassinated topics/us- presidents/john-f- kennedy/videos/john-f- kennedy-assassinated watch?v=Sqk3sdfXFkc  Kennedy died after arrival  Lyndon B. Johnson Became the president of the United States

Shooter??  Lee Harvey Oswald 24 year old ex-marine Briefly lived in the Soviet Union Supported Castro Oswald being transported between jails  Night club owner = Jack Ruby  Broke through the crowd = shot Oswald

Questions  Conspiracy Warren Commission  Investigated / concluded Oswald shot the president on his own   1979 – Private Reinvestigation Concluded that Oswald was part of a conspiracy  2 people may have fired at the president  Communist plot by anti-Castro Cubans?  Communists sponsored attack?  Conspiracy by the CIA?  Johnson?