1. JFK and LBJ

2. Election of 1960 Kennedy (D) vs. Nixon (R)
1st televised debates (favored JFK)
JFK controversy: religion, youth
Kennedy won by a slim margin

3. Election Map

4. Policy Change
Flexible Response: relied less on nuclear weapons and more on conventional weapons

5. Problems w/ Cuba Fidel Castro
Took power from Batista in a revolution (1959)
Established close ties to USSR

6. Bay of Pigs
Eisenhower had CIA train Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and gain control of the country
JFK decided to continue w/ plan
April 1961: invasion a failure; most exiles captured/executed

7. Cuban Missile Crisis
U-2 plane discovered Soviet missiles being built in Cuba
US blockaded Cuba
US secretly agreed to remove missiles from Turkey if Soviets dismantled theirs in Cuba

9. Berlin Crisis Many Germans leaving East Berlin to live in West Berlin
Khrushchev put up the Berlin Wall (came down in 1989)

10. Easing Tension
Hot line established
Limited Test Ban Treaty signed

11. Promise of Progress The New Frontier
Increased minimum wage ($1.25/hour)
Peace Corps (attempt to contain communism)
Race to the moon (7/20/69- Neil Armstrong)

12. The Assassination 11/22/63- JFK in Dallas to meet w/ Democrats
Oswald arrested and was shot by Jack Ruby as he was being transferred to a new jail
Warren Commission- determined Oswald was a lone shooter

14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSBXW1-VGmM single bullet conspiracy
Zapruder

15. Lyndon B. Johnson The Great Society (domestic program) War on Poverty
Education- increase federal spending
Medicare/Medicaid
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Immigration Act of 1965
Environment
Results: most federal money went to Vietnam

16. Supreme Court Reform Earl Warren- Chief Justice
Banned prayer in schools
Loyalty oaths declared unconstitutional
Most Supreme Court decisions favored the individual over the government