Kennedy Book Project

1. Kennedy Book Project
Directions:
create a book using a
large sheet of paper
folded in half.
MUST HAVE COLOR
and an illustration on
each page
Required pages:
1. Title Page (Must include
title, names and illustration)
2. Kennedy’s Domestic
Policy (topics on next slide)
3. Kennedy's foreign policy
(topics on next slide)

2. Content Pages
Domestic must cover:
• Election of 1960
• New frontier (3
examples programs
from new frontier)
• Peace Corps
• Effect on NASA and
the Moon
Foreign must cover:
• Cuban
Revolution/Fidel
Castro
• Bay of Pigs
• Cuban Missile
Crisis/Nikita
Khrushchev
• Berlin Wall

4. II. Europe Goes to War
A. Election of 1960
1. John F. Kennedy -
- Youngest pres. elected @ 43 yrs
- Irish-Catholic (1st & only)
- VP Lyndon Johnson
- 1st TV pres. debates

5. “I believe in an
America where the
separation of church
and state is absolute”• Americans felt
uneasy about
Kennedy
religious
background
(Catholic)

6. II. Europe Goes to War
A. Election of 1960
1. John F. Kennedy -
- Youngest pres. elected @ 43 yrs
- Irish-Catholic (1st & only)
- VP Lyndon Johnson
- 1st TV pres. debates

7. • On September 26, 1960,
Kennedy and Nixon
took part in the first
televised debate
between presidential
candidates
• Kennedy looked and
spoke better than
Nixon
• Journalist Russell
Baker said, “That night,
image replaced the
printed word as the
national language of
politics”

8. II. Europe Goes to War
2. Narrow Victory
- won by a 119,000 popular votes out of 69 million
- entered office w/o a mandate.

9. CLOSEST ELECTION SINCE 1884
• Kennedy won the
election by fewer
than 119,000
votes
• Nixon dominated
the west, while
Kennedy won the
south and the
east coast
JFKRMN

10. II. Europe Goes to War
B. Kennedy’s Domestic
Program
- “New Frontier” Kennedy’s domestic
program in improving the
economy, assisting the poor, &
speeding up the space program.
a. Economy & Poverty
- $1.25 min. wage
- $5 bil for public housing
- some help for Soc Sec
expansion
- Housing Act of 1961 - 4.9 mil.
for urban renewal
- Peace Corps.
- The Equal pay Act of 1963 - all
employees doing the same
work in the same place be
given roughly the same pay

11. We stand on the edge of a New
Frontier—the frontier of unfulfilled hopes
and dreams, a frontier of unknown
opportunities and beliefs in peril. Beyond
that frontier are uncharted areas of
science and space, unsolved problems
of peace and war, unconquered
problems of ignorance and prejudice,
unanswered questions of poverty and
surplus.
- exec order providing surplus food to
unemployed
- largest, fastest defense buildup in
peacetime history - missile programs
- doubled fed resources to combat
water pollution
- fed program addressing juvenile
delinquency
- construction of worlds largest nuclear
power plant
- signed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - first
nuclear weapons agreement

12. • Explore areas of science
and space, prejudice, and
poverty/surplus
• One of the first programs
launched by JFK was the
Peace Corps
• The Peace Corps is a
volunteer program to
assist developing nations
in Asia, Africa and Latin
America
• Stimulate the economy-
Kennedy’s pushed for
deficit spending

14. A Peace Corp volunteer
describes the construction
of a new school for villagers
in Dadar, India.

15. II. Europe Goes to War
- July 20, 1969, Neil
Armstrong walks on moon
2. Space Program
- Sputnik & Cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin - 1st to orbit the earth
- caused Americans to
believe they were falling
behind.
- goal of a man on moon by
end of decade
- NASA funding - from
$500 mil to $4.5 bil

16. What was the
New Frontier? Which program of
the New Frontier do you believe is
the most valuable?

17. • From the beginning of
his term in early 1961,
JFK focused on the Cold
War (Soviet relations)
• Kennedy’s “flexible
response” plan tripled
our nuclear capability,
increased troops, ships
and artillery, and
created the Green
Berets (Special Forces)

19. Only 90 miles
always from the
USA!!!

20. • 1959- After a 6 year
revolution President &
Dictator Batista flees
Cuba and Fidel Castro
assumes power.
• The US supported Batista
because he wasn’t
communist and he
supported American
investment
• Fidel Castro welcomed
aid from the USSR
• Relations between the
U.S. and Cuba were
deteriorating
I Hate
Castro- As a harsh dictator, suspended elections, jailed or
executed opponents, and censored press and media

21. II. Europe Goes to War
A. Bay of Pigs
- 1959 Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista, (corrupt US
backed dictator w/ties to mafia)
- Castro turns socialist - US cut
off trade & ties to Cuba.
- Castro embraces Soviets.
- April 1961, 1,400 CIA trained
Cuban exiles landed at the Bay
of Pigs to overthrow Castro
- JFK cut off air support at last
minute - coup failed.
- Cuban Americans blamed JFK &
the Dems.
- Exposes to world, U.S.
overthrows gov.s
“Let every nation know, whether it
wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay
any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose
any foe to assure the survival and the
success of liberty.”
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961

22. II. Europe Goes to War
A. Bay of Pigs
- 1959 Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista, (corrupt US
backed dictator w/ties to mafia)
- Castro turns socialist - US cut
off trade & ties to Cuba.
- Castro embraces Soviets.
- April 1961, 1,400 CIA trained
Cuban exiles landed at the Bay
of Pigs to overthrow Castro
- JFK cut off air support at last
minute - coup failed.
- Cuban Americans blamed JFK
& the Dems.
- Exposes to world, U.S.
overthrows gov.s

23. II. Europe Goes to War
C.CubanMissileCrisis-Oct.1962
- Bay of Pigs led to Castro
asking Soviets for protection
- Soviets send $$ & nuclear
missiles
- JFK orders navy “quarantine”
- JFK agreed not to invade Cuba
& secretly take missiles out of
Turkey.

25. II. Europe Goes to War
C.CubanMissileCrisis-Oct.1962
- Bay of Pigs led to Castro
asking Soviets for protection
- Soviets send money &
nuclear missiles
- JFK orders navy “quarantine”
- JFK agreed not to invade Cuba
& secretly take missiles out of
Turkey.
Effects
- “hot line” est. between U.S. &
USSR
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
(1963) - banned above ground
Nuclear bomb testing
- Kennedy a hero, Dems
looked good for midterm
elections

26. II. Europe Goes to War
D. Alliance for Progress
- 1961 - Alliance For Progress
created to help Latin America.
- Marshall Plan for L. America
Results
- Some progress made
- By 1970, considered failure
- 13 military dictators replaced
gov.s,
Why fail: 20 billion not enough for
entire hemisphere, Kennedy dies.
GOALS:
▪an annual increase of 2.5% in per
capita income,
▪ the establishment of democratic
governments,
▪ the elimination of adult illiteracy by
1970
▪ price stability, to avoid inflation or
deflation

27. Berlin Wall

28. 1. Who are the two men
in the cartoon?
2. What does the monster
represent?
3. What is the message in
the cartoon?
4. What event do you
think inspired the
cartoon?

29. A. Nov. 22, 1963 JFK Assassinated
- By Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, TX
- 2 days later, Oswald shot by Jack Ruby
- Chief Earl Warren led commission ruling Oswald acted alone

30. II. Europe Goes to War
A. Nov. 22, 1963 JFK Assassinated
- By Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, TX
- 2 days later, Oswald shot by Jack Ruby
- Chief Earl Warren led commission ruling Oswald acted alone

31. II. Europe Goes to War
B. Lyndon B. Johnson
- 24 years in House & Senate - experienced
- From TX, chosen V.P. for Southern vote