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.