1. 28-2: The New Frontier

2. 1. Problem: Economic Recession
What programs, laws, and accomplishments resulted from Kennedy’s beliefs?
Congress increased defense spending
Increased the minimum wage
Extended unemployment insurance
Provided assistance to cities with high unemployment rates
What did Kennedy believe the government could do to solve the problem?
Increased spending
Engaged in deficit spending
Lower taxes

3. 2. Problem: Poverty Abroad
What did Kennedy believe the government could do to solve the problem?
Offered volunteer, economic and technical assistance to developing nations
What programs, laws, and accomplishments resulted from Kennedy’s beliefs?
Peace Corps: (volunteers help poor/developing nations)
The Alliance for Progress: (aid to Latin American countries)
Some economic progress was made in developing nations due to these efforts

4. 3. Problem: Soviet Successes in Space
What programs, laws, and accomplishments resulted from Kennedy’s beliefs?
U.S. astronauts orbited the Earth and finally landed on the moon.
Science programs expanded
New technology and new industries developed
Rapid growth of Southern and Western states
What did Kennedy believe the government could do to solve the problem?
JFK set the goal of landing on the moon before the end of the 1960s
Increased spending on the space program
Crew of Apollo I

5. The New Frontier: Unfulfilled Promises
4. Rejected Proposals
Medical care for the aged
Rebuilding of blighted urban areas
Federal aid for education

6. The New Frontier: Unfulfilled Promises
5. Later proposals JFK made but never had the chance to guide through congress because he was assassinated
A national assault on poverty
An investigation of racial injustice in the South
A national Civil Rights Bill
A tax cut

7. Warren Commission
The Warren Commission was the body that investigated the Kennedy Assassination.
The Commission determined that JFK’s assassinator, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone

8. Term: Mandate
Mandate: An overwhelming show of support by voters, or a clear indication that the voters approve of a politician’s plan.
One reason for Kennedy’s difficulties was that he was elected by a small margin. As a result he lacked a popular mandate. Because JFK lacked overwhelming support, he rarely pushed hard for his bills.