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President Kennedy
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President Kennedy 4
CriteriaGood BossTruthfulnessDealing with ProblemsGrowing the EconomyDealing with Foreign CountriesConnecting with the PublicEquality for AllRelations with CongressHaving a Vision
Best Presidents
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy Family. Youthful and Fashionable
Youngest President/New Generation
Very Popular.
Inaugural Address
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”
New Frontier
Support EducationLower TaxesRaise Minimum WageEnd Racial DiscriminationIncrease Defense Spending
New Frontier
Congress didn’t pass most of his programs
“No sense in raising hell &Not being successful” -Kennedy
Civil Rights
Supported ending Racial Discrimination/Supported MLK.
Congress blocked his bills
NASA/Space Race
1957: Soviets launch Sputnik. 1st Satellite in Space. Americans felt like “losers”
1961: Kennedy creates NASA. Goal to get Man on the Moon. (Happened in1969)
Cuba
1959: Castro creates Communist gov. in Cuba.
Soviet Ally90 Miles fromUS Soil!
Bay of Pigs InvasionCIA trained Cuban Exiles to invade Cuba to remove Castro.
Captured by Cuban Soldiers. Kennedy took the blame “Victory has a thousand Fathers, Defeat is an Orphan”
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
US Detects Soviet Missile Bases on Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
13 Days, Brink of Nuclear War
US Blocades Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from bringing Missiles.
Soviets Agree to remove missiles from Cuba, US pledges to leave Cuba alone and remove Missiles from Turkey.
Berlin WallEast Berlin (Communist) builds wall around West Berlin. Traps E. Berliners in/stops escape to the West.
Kennedy visited the Wall, gave a speech. “Freedom is not perfect, but we don’t put up a wall”
Wall stayed up.
Easing Cold War Tensions
Kennedy and Krushchev create a hotline between the 2 nations to ease tensions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Peace Corps
Organization that supports poorer countries.
Sends volunteers to helpwith education, health,Development.
Assassination (Nov. 22 1963)
Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas
Conspiracy?
Oswald shot by Jack Ruby?Did Oswald act alone?
We don’t know!
Draw a Chart in your notebook
One side says Not so Great, the other side says Great.
Was Kennedy a Great President? (Section 2)
Read Through Documents F and GUnderline Green for Great/Red for Not so Great
On the chart, place the document and the criteria.
Was Kennedy a Great President?
Read through Documents H and I and do the same thing
Craft your Argument
Pick through 2 more other documents that can back your argument.
Underline Green or Red and place on your chart.