1. Democratic Candidate Republican Candidate
Election of 1960
Democratic Candidate
Republican Candidate

2. Media and the Cold War
During this time period media effected the public, probably more than any other time prior.
Media had a powerful effect of the American citizen and their response to war.

4. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Country was ready for change
Senator in Mass.
W.W.2 Veteran
43 years old (youngest)
Family very wealthy
Catholic (Pope vs. US)
Texas Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson (V. Pres)
“Ask not what, your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?”

5. Richard Millhouse Nixon
Vice President under Eisenhower
W.W. 2 Veteran also
Working class family
One of the closest races in history
Lost by 120,000 votes of 69 million voters

6. Cold War
1956 Nikita Khrushchev promise the US when he took office “We will bury you.”
Kennedy declared at Inauguration speech. “that only a few generations have had to defend freedom. We must pay the price and bear any burden.”
Established Peace Corps to help poor nations

7. Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy
Cold War lead to Russia gaining satellite (puppet)
countries, while
US was gaining strength through the poorer countries with Peace Corps

8. Berlin Crises Put up by JFK
Stop the spread of Soviet Communism into East Germany
East Germany Democratic

9. Berlin Wall

10. Cuban Govt. Overthrown By Fidel Castro
Overthrew Fulgencio Batista Cuban dictator

11. Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs was a top secret military invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow Communist Cuba leader Fidel Castro approved by JFK .
Kennedy sent 1,400 exiled Cuban exiles into Cuba after secretly training them in Guatemala. The began when American airplanes painted to look like Cuban planes flew under the cover of darkness to bomb Cuba’s airfield and missed nearly every drop to leave Cuba’s Air force completely in power.
The invasion and ensuing failure strengthened Castro’s position and lead to one of the key events in the Cold War.

12. Cuban Missile Crises Cuba becomes a puppet state of Soviet Union
Close eye on US
Soviets provide Fidel Castro with nuclear weapons and set up a missile site

13. Cuban Missile Crises

14. The Space Program
The Soviets and the Americans were not only pushing for world position but also position in space
Soviets had put “Yuri Gagarin” as the first man in space
The Americans out did the Soviets by putting “John Glenn” as the first man to orbit Earth

15. Yuri Gagarin (First man in space)

16. John Glenn (First man to orbit Earth)

17. Led to the Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong
First man on the moon
“One small step for man, one giant step for mankind!”

18. Kennedy Assassinated November 22nd, 1963

20. Lee Harvey Oswald

21. Jack Ruby Killed Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas Night Club owner (2 days later)

22. Lyndon Baines Johnson All the Way with LBJ (Campaign slogan)
LBJ vs. AU H2O
Lead us into Vietnam
President during the civil rights movement

23. Civil Rights (segregation)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Separate but Equal

24. Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott refused to sit at the back of the bus

25. Martin Luther King Led “March on Washington” “I have a dream!” speech
Americans hopeful towards White/Black relations

26. King Jr. Assassinated April 4th, 1968 Age 39
Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN
By James Earl Ray
Sentenced 99 yrs. plead guilty
Died in prison age 70
Shot in the head with a .30 caliber bullet

27. Malcolm X Black separatist
Preached that the whites will never except the Black worlds therefore we should not except the white world
Opposite of Martin Luther Kings non-violent, non-radical methods

28. The End