AP United States History Unit 9 Cold War America AP United States History Unit 9

Kennedy-Nixon TV Debate JFK Nixon Debate

Kennedy on Catholicism “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President  -- should he be Catholic -- how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote… For contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President who happens also to be a Catholic.”

Election of 1960 EV PV Kennedy 303 49.7% Nixon 219 49.6% Byrd 15 0.7%

Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

A defector from the East during the Wall’s early days Second Berlin Crisis A defector from the East during the Wall’s early days

Kennedy Ich bin ein Berliner (1:09)

Bay of Pigs fiasco

Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy Addresses Nation on the Missile Crisis

Peace Corps

Alliance for Progress ...[W]e propose to complete the revolution of the Americas, to build a hemisphere where all men can hope for a suitable standard of living and all can live out their lives in dignity and in freedom. To achieve this goal political freedom must accompany material progress...Let us once again transform the American Continent into a vast crucible of revolutionary ideas and efforts, a tribute to the power of the creative energies of free men and women, an example to all the world that liberty and progress walk hand in hand. Let us once again awaken our American revolution until it guides the struggles of people everywhere – not with an imperialism of force or fear but the rule of courage and freedom and hope for the future of man.

Images of “Camelot”

Kennedy Assassination

Ruby shoots Oswald

Kennedy’s Funeral

The (Earl) Warren Court

Lyndon Johnson

Election of 1964 "Daisy" Commercial

The Other America There is a familiar America. It is celebrated in speeches and advertised on television and in the magazines. It has the highest mass standard of living the world has ever known…. While this discussion was carried on, there existed another America. In it dwelt somewhere between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 citizens of this land. They were poor. They still are....

Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” “For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning.” Johnson's War on Poverty and Great Society (American Experience) [9:00]

Johnson’s “War on Poverty”

The Great Society rebuilding cities “War on Poverty” environment consumer protection civil rights legislation “War on Poverty” health insurance for elderly and poor education immigration reform

Evolution of Progressive Reform Reform Movement Era Significant Reforms or Areas of Concern Antebellum Reforms (inspired by 2nd Great Awakening) 1820s-1860 temperance women’s rights abolition of slavery public education treatment of mentally ill prison reform Social Gospel (response to urbanization, industrialization, immigration) 1880s-1910s temperance/prohibition settlement houses child labor factory safety tenement housing public health and safety Movements above were largely church-related or civic in nature. Movements below sought active government intervention. Populism (response to plight of farmers) 1880s-1890s regulation of trusts (RRs) inflated currency (silver) graduated income tax democratic political reforms Progressivism (response to urbanization, industrialization, political corruption) 1890s-1920s women suffrage regulation of trusts tariff reduction “Square Deal” for labor conservation prohibition consumer protection New Deal/Fair Deal (response to Great Depression) 1933-1940s elderly pension unemployment insurance bank, stock market reform farmer relief public works, jobs recognition of labor unions Great Society (response to urban poverty and plight of African Americans) 1960s health insurance for poor, elderly welfare federal funding of education urban renewal environmental protection immigration reform civil rights

Influential Books

“I left the woman I really loved for that bitch of a war in Asia.” LBJ in his own words… “I left the woman I really loved for that bitch of a war in Asia.”