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The New Frontier. The Election of 1960. F irst televised debates-voting tool Kennedy- Catholic , wealthy, influential family Nixon-Quaker, financially struggling family $$$ on financial ads Issues: Economy and Cold War Cuba and Castro? “missile gap”. JFK and the Cold War. Bay of Pigs - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The New Frontier
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The Election of 1960First televised debates-voting toolKennedy-Catholic, wealthy, influential familyNixon-Quaker, financially struggling family$$$ on financial adsIssues: Economy and Cold WarCuba and Castro? “missile gap”
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JFK and the Cold War
Bay of PigsBerlin War
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cuba
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What is going on in Cuba before the Cold War?
Spanish-American WarTeller Amendment- prohibited annexation of CubaPlatt Amendment-US can intervene in Cuban
affairs1926- U.S companies owned 60% of the Cuban
sugar industry and imported 95% of the total Cuban crop
Havana
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Bay of Pigs InvasionApril 17, 1961
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1959, Fidel Castro overthrows Battista (US-backed dictator), establishing Communist government.Seized US oil refineriesBroke up commercial
farmsRelied on Soviet aidPolitically repressed
those who didn’t agree with him
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Nikita Khrushchev-Expressing intent to
strengthen Cuba militarily
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March 1960 Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly train Cuban exiles for an invasion of Cuba
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Eisenhower cut off diplomatic relations with Cuba on January 3, 1961 (about 2 weeks before Kennedy came into office)
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JFK learned of the plot only 9 days after his election but still approved it
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April 17, 1961: 1300-1500 exiles, supported by US military, landed on Bay of Pigs
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April 17, 1961: 1300-1500 exiles, supported by US military, landed on Bay of PigsAirstrike failed to knock
out Cuban air forceA small advance group
never reached shoreExiles faced 25,000
Cuban troops backed by Soviet tanks and jet aircraft
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ResultTroops surrounded, some killed others taken as
prisoners
Cuban counter-revolutionaries, members of Assault Brigade 2506, after their capture at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba, in April 1961
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ResultCastro turned event into public relations triumph
Kennedy looked embarrassed, took blame
Negotiated for surviving commandos – paid $52 million in food and medical supplies
Kennedy said no more communist expansion in W. Hemisphere
Castro welcomed USSR aid.
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The Berlin Wall Goes UpFrom 1949-1961,
about 2.5 million East Germans had fled East Germany to West GermanySkilled workers,
professionals, intellectuals
Destroyed economy of East Germany
Barrier needed
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Berlin Wall goes up cont. The original wall built of
barbed wire and cinder blocks, was subsequently replaced by a series of concrete walls (up to 15 feet [5 metres] high) that were topped with barbed wire and guarded with watchtowers, gun emplacements, and mines. By the 1980s this system of walls, electrified fences, and fortifications extended 28 miles (45 km) through Berlin, dividing the two parts of the city, and extended a further 75 miles (120 km) around West Berlin, separating it from the rest of East Germany.
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Cuban Missile CrisisAutumn 1962, Cuba has received 1000s of USSR
missiles, jets, boats & personnelCuba was a new Communist stateCuba provided a launch base for USSR inter-
continental missiles (ICMs)Khrushchev wanted to test strength of new US
president, JFKKhrushchev wanted to force JFK into bargaining
over US missile in Europe
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What happened during the October Crisis?
Soviet technicians and equipment arrives in Cuba
14 October 1962, US U2 spy plane takes photos of suspected USSR long-range missile sites on Cuba
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50RNAbmy3M
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What should Kennedy do?
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Kennedy’s DecisionsNaval blockadeOrdered Soviets from dismantle existing missile
sitesSecret negotiations
Outcome-USSR Removes weapons if….
US removes missiles from Turkey and promises not to invade Cuba
Limited Test Ban Treaty
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“New Frontier”Lacked a popular mandate – a clear indication
that the voters approved his plansPeace CorpsAlliance for Progress
Race to the Moonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_JlSdRCg7g
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LBJ’s “Great Society”