Guided Notes

Chapter 23; the New Frontier and Great Society

Section 1:

I. The Election of 1960 (pages 718–719)

A. The _______________ presidential election began the era of________________________ politics. Voters

began using this __________________________ as a ________________________tool.

B. The ___________________________ candidate, John F. _____________________________, was a

____________________________ from a ______________________________ Massachusetts family.

__________________________________ candidate, Richard _________________________, was a

________________________________ from a financially _________________________________ family.

C. During the campaign, ___________________________________ spent over $_________ million in

_______________________________________ and _______________________ ads, while

_______________________________________ spent over ______________ million.

D. The campaign __________________________ on the __________________________ and the _____________ War.

_______________________________ felt the United States faced a ______________________ from the

_____________________________ and showed concerned about a “____________________________________________,”

in which it was _______________________________ the United States was ________________________________ the

Soviets in __________________________________. Nixon believed the _________________________________________

administration was on the _________________________ track with its _____________________________ policy.

E. The televised __________________________________ had a ____________________________ influence on the

_____________________________ of the election. Kennedy _____________________ in what was one of the

____________________________ elections in history.

II. The Kennedy Mystique (pages 719–720)

A. John Kennedy’s ____________________________, ______________________________________, and

___________________________________ inspired Americans.

B. In his _________________________________ Address, Kennedy told Americans, “ask _______________ what

your country can ____________ for you—______________ what you ______________ do for your country.”

C. Kennedy was the ________________________ president to _____________________________ his press

conferences ____________________ on television.

III. Success and Setback on the Domestic Front (pages 720–721)

A. With his ________________ legislative agenda, known as the New ______________________________,

Kennedy hoped to __________________________________ aid to ______________________________, provide

____________________________ insurance to the _________________________________, create a Department

of _________________________ Affairs, and help ___________________________ workers.

B. Kennedy was _______________________________________________ in pushing through ____________________ of

his _______________________________ programs even though the __________________________________ Party had

large __________________________________ in ____________________________ houses of Congress. Many

Republicans and ____________________________________ Southern Democrats ___________________ the New

________________________________ was too ___________________________. Congress ________________________________

many of Kennedy’s ________________________________.

C. Kennedy ______________________________ the New ____________________ strategy of ___________________________

spending that had been ______________________________________ during Roosevelt’s presidency. Congress

was convinced to ____________________________ more ___________________________ for

________________________________________ and _____________________________ exploration to ______________________

more ____________________ and encourage ________________________________ growth. Kennedy also

______________________________ the _________________________________ through ___________________________________

business _______________________________ and ________________________________________.

D. Kennedy helped the ___________________________________ movement during the 1960s. He created a

Presidential ______________________________________ on the _______________________________of Women,

calling for _______________________________ action against ___________________________________ discrimination

and affirming the ___________________________ of ________________________________to ___________________________

paid employment.

IV. Warren Court Reforms (page 721–723)

A. ________________________issues were a ___________________________ during Kennedy’s time in office. Earl

_________________________________, Chief ____________________________ of the United States since

____________________________________ presidency, and the ______________________________ Court took on a

much more ______________________________ tone, which helped shape ____________________________ policy.

The Warren Court took a _______________________ on several __________________________ issues, such as the

________________________ rights movement, freedom of the ________________________,

________________________________ of _______________________________ and ____________________________, and the

rights of the ___________________________________. Many of these ____________________________________ are still

being __________________________ today.

B. One of the ___________________________Court’s most ____________________________________ decisions

involved __________________________________________, or the way in which _____________________

________________________ up political _________________________________ based on ______________________________

in ___________________________________. The Warren Court decided on the ___________________________________

of “______________ man, one ____________________,” which required state ______________________________________

to reapportion ___________________________________ districts so that ___________ citizens’ votes would have

__________________________ weight.

C. During the 1960s, the U.S. ____________________________ Court used the ___________________________________

Amendment to ________________________ the Bill of ____________________________ to the ____________________.

Due _____________________________ required that the ________________ _______________________ treat an

individual __________________________________, __________________________________________, or unreasonably,

and that _________________________ must follow proper ________________________________ and

__________________________ when ______________________ a case.

D. The issue of _______________________________________ between ___________________________ and

________________________ was reaffirmed when the Court _______________________ that states could

_____________________ compose official __________________________________ and

__________________________________________ ___________________________________________ in

__________________________ schools.

E. The decisions of the Warren Court were__________________________ by some while

_________________________________ by others, but the Court had an ____________________________ role in

shaping national ____________________________.

Section 2:

I. Kennedy Confronts Global Challenges (pages 724–726)

A. As President Kennedy _______________________________ the White House, the nation’s

________________________________ between the __________________________ Union ______________________________.

B. Kennedy ______________________ that Eisenhower had _________________________ too

______________________________ on ________________________________ weapons. Instead,

Kennedy supported a “__________________________________________________” where he asked for a

____________________________________________ of conventional ____________________________ and

____________________________. Kennedy also __________________________________ the _____________________________

Forces, a ______________________ army ________________________ established in the 1950s to wage

_________________________________________ warfare.

C. To _____________________________ ______________________________ American relations,

__________________________ proposed the Alliance for ____________________________________, a

series of __________________________________ aid projects with Latin American governments. Over a

________-year period, ____________ billion was promised to _________________ Latin America. In

_____________________________, ______________________________, Venezuela, and the ____________________________

American republics, real _________________________________ took place. In other countries, the governing

______________________________ used the ________________________ to ___________________________________ in

power.

D. The __________________________ Corps, created to ______________________ less

_________________________________ nations fight __________________________________, trained

___________________________ Americans to spend _______________________ years ____________________________ in a

country. The Peace Corps is still ___________________________ today and has become one of Kennedy’s

most ___________________________________ and _______________________________________________ legacies.

E. During this time of ______________________________________ tension between the United States and the

Soviet Union, the _________________ countries _______________________________ in a ___________________________

race. Kennedy ___________________________ Americans to be the ________________________ to reach the

_____________________. On July ____________, 1969, _______________________ Armstrong became the

________________________ human being to ________________________ on the ____________________________.

II. Crises of the Cold War (pages 726–728)

A. Cuba and its leader, Fidel ______________________, began forming an _______________________ with the

Soviet Union and its leader, _______________________ Khrushchev. During Eisenhower’s presidency, the

_________ had __________________________________ trained and ____________________________ Cuban

__________________________ known as La ________________________________. Kennedy’s advisers

_________________________ a plan to _____________________________ ___________________using La Brigada. On April

_______, 1961, _________________________ armed Cuban _______________________________ landed at the

___________ of __________________ on the ____________________ coast of Cuba. ________________________ struck as

Kennedy ____________________________ _______________ support for the ____________________ in order to

_________________________ United States _________________________________________ a

________________________________. Most of the La Brigada were either _________________________ or

________________________________ by __________________________________ army.

B. After ____________________________ with Soviet ____________________________ Nikita Khrushchev, Kennedy

____________________________ to recognize ________________ Germany or to ___________________ the United

States—along with Great _______________________ and ______________________________—

____________________________ from ____________________________. The Soviet leader ______________________________

by _____________________________________ a __________________________ through _________________________,

stopping __________________________ between the Soviet ________________________ and the _______________ of

the city. For the next _________________ years, the _______________________ Wall

_________________________________________ the Cold War ___________________________________ between

_____________________ and _______________________________.

C. During the summer of ___________________, American intelligence agencies

______________________________ that Soviet ___________________________________ and

_______________________________________ had arrived in ______________________. Photographs

_____________________ that the _______________________________ had placed __________________-range missiles in

___________________________. Kennedy ordered a ___________________________ blockade to ______________________

the Soviets from _____________________________________ more missiles. As Soviet ________________________

headed toward the ____________________________, Americans _________________________________ for ____________.

Neither __________________________ nor ______________________________________ wanted

_____________________________ war. Kennedy agreed __________________ to ___________________ Cuba and to

_____________________________ missiles in ______________________________. The Soviets ____________________ to

_____________________________________ missiles in _____________________________.

D. The Cuban missile ________________________, as it became known, brought the _______________________ to

the _____________________________ of a ___________________________________ war. Both sides ______________________

to work ___________________ a plan to ________________ tension. In __________________ the United

States and the Soviet Union _______________________ to a treaty _______________________ the

______________________________ of nuclear weapons in the _________________________________. The missile

________________________ led to Nikita Khrushchev’s _____________________ from __________________________ ,

and the _____________________ Soviet ____________________________________ was ________________________

interested in reaching __________________________________ with the West. The ___________________ was a

huge Soviet ____________________ buildup.

III. The Death of a President (pages 728–729)

A. On November __________, ___________________, John F. Kennedy was __________________ twice while riding

in a presidential ___________________________________. He was pronounced _____________________ a short time

later. _____________ Harvey __________________________, a ______________________________, was

______________________ of killing Kennedy and was __________________ and killed _________________________ two

days later by Jack __________________. It was _________________________ that ________________________ killed

_____________________to __________________________________ others involved in the ______________________. Chief

Justice ________________________ concluded that _____________________________ was the ____________________

gunman. The report of the _________________________ Commission left a ______________ questions

_______________________________, and a __________________________________ theory has persisted, although none

has gained wide ____________________________________.

B. Kennedy’s ______________________________, Lyndon ____________________________, set out to

___________________________ many of Kennedy’s ____________________________.

Section 3:

I. Johnson Takes the Reins (pages 732–735)

A. Lyndon Johnson ________________________ office during what _________________________ like a

_____________________________ time for the United States. In __________________________, however,

________________________ from the nation’s _________________________ suburbs were some __________ million

_______________________. Kennedy and Johnson made the __________________________________________ of

__________________________________________________ a major policy _______________________________.

B. Johnson _____________________________ from Kennedy’s elegant _________________________ image. Johnson,

a ________________________, spoke ______________________________ and ___________________________ at times. He

sought ways to find _________________________________, or general ___________________________________________.

His __________________________ to build ______________________________________ made him __________________ of

the most ___________________________ and ___________________________ leaders in _____________________________

history.

C. Johnson ________________________ that his administration was waging an ____________________________

war on ____________________________ in America. By the ______________________________ of 1964, Congress

had ________________________________ the Office of _______________________________ Opportunity

(______________), which focused on creating _______________ and fighting _________________________.

D. The election of 1964 had ______________________________ running against

__________________________________ candidate Barry _________________________________. Americans were

________________ ready for Goldwater’s _______________________________ message, and Johnson

________________ in a landslide.

II. The Great Society (pages 735–737)

A. Johnson promised a Great ______________________ during his campaign. It was the ___________________ of

a more __________________________, more _________________________ society.

B. Between __________________ and ________________, over ____________ programs were passed, including

__________________________________ and __________________________. Medicare was a ______________________

insurance program for the ___________________________ funded through _______________________ Security.

Medicaid ______________________________ health _____________________________ for those on

________________________________ or living _____________________________ the _________________________________

line.

C. Johnson’s interest in ____________________________ led to the ____________________________________ and

_______________________________________ Education Act of 1965 and to the _________________________ program,

Project ____________________ Start, which was administered to ________________________________________

children.

D. Johnson _________________________ Congress to act on legislation dealing with the

_____________________________________ of inner __________________________. Congress responded with the

creation of the Department of ______________________________ and _________________________ Development in

1965. Its first secretary, Robert ______________________________, was the first __________________________

American to serve in a ____________________________. “Model ______________________________,” a broad-based

program with _____________________________ funds from ___________________ and ____________________

agencies, ____________________________ programs in the areas of ______________________________________,

______________________ care, _______________________________, and _______________________________.

E. The ________________________________ Reform Act of 1965 played a _____________ role in

____________________________ the ____________________________________ of the American

________________________________. It kept a ______________________ limit on the _____________________________ of

immigrants ___________________________ to the United States each year. It also ____________________________

the national __________________________ system, which gave _________________________ to northern

_________________________________________ immigrants. Immigrants ___________________________________ in the

U.S. from ___________ parts of ____________________________ and from ___________________ and

_______________________.

III. Legacy of the Great Society (pages 737–738)

A. The ______________________ of the _____________________ Society was ___________________ by ________________

aspects of American _____________________ and ______________________________ many lives.

B. Some Americans _____________________________ the ______________________________________ growth of

___________________________ funds and ________________________________ the Great Society for

___________________________________ too much in their lives.

C. There is a continued _____________________ over the ________________________ of the Great Society. It did

__________________________ in many Americans ___________________________ questions,

_______________________________ Americans continue to ask _______________________________.

I Can Statements and Bellringers

Chapter 23; New Frontier and Great Society

I Can Statements…

*Section 1: New Frontier

Summarize Kennedy’s economic policies.

Explain why Congress often did not support Kennedy’s proposals.

*Section 2: JFK and the Cold War

Describe Kennedy’s plan for the armed forces.

Explain how the Cold War influenced foreign aid and the space program.

*Section 3: Great Society

Explain what inspired Johnson’s Great Society.

Identify several specific health and employment programs of the Johnson administration.

Bellringer 1: __________________________________________________________________________

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Bellringer 2:___________________________________________________________________________

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Bellringer 3:___________________________________________________________________________

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Bellringer 4:___________________________________________________________________________

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Bellringer 5:___________________________________________________________________________

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