Creating Modern America in the 50s & 60s The Cold War & Kennedy: 1961-1963
Kennedy’s Foreign Policy Peace Corps – young Americans give technical aid to developing Nations Alliance for Progress – land reform & economic development in Latin America Trade Expansion Act - tariff reductions with Common Market
Kennedy & Cuba Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1963 Failed CIA plan to use Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro http://havanajournal.com/images/uploads/Bay_of_pigs.jpg
2nd Berlin Crisis Berlin Wall, 1963 Pg. 595 Summarize http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/tours/germany/gifs/berlinwall.jpg
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Soviets building underground sites to launch missiles pg. 596 http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol46no1/CubaMap1b_w.jpg
Cuban Missile Crisis Naval blockade – very close to nuclear war Soviets back down Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963 Kennedy develops “flexible response” & moves away from “massive retaliation”
Impact of Cold War on America Imminent threat of nuclear war Rise of Sunbelt Changing attitudes – racial segregation & discrimination stood out as glaring wrongs that needed to be corrected