2. The legacy of John F Kennedy
The Sixties
The legacy of John F Kennedy

3. Vocab List 34 P 364 CH 15
-Missile Gap -Reapportionment -Due Process -Flexible Response (P 367) -Space Race
-Peace Corps (P 272)

4. I. 20th Century Presidents:
Teddy Roosevelt (1901)- Mr. D’s Fav + Rough Rider + Spanish/US War
Howard Taft (1909) - Dollar Diplomacy
Woodrow Wilson (1913) - WWI + League of Nations/14 Points
Warren Harding (1921) - Scandelousssss
Silent Cal (1923) - $$$$$
Herbert Hoover (1929) - Great Depression Failure
FDR ( !) - WW2 + New Deal + American bad ass
Harry Truman (1945) - Atomic Bomb + Korean War
Dwight Eisenhower (1953) - Cold War Truly begins

5. TEDDY

6. TAFT

7. W^2 WILSON

8. HARDING

9. SILENT CAL :X

10. HOOVER

11. FDR

12. TRUMAN

13. EISENHOWER

14. II. John F Kennedy Kennedy’s legacy called “The New Frontier”:
a) Raised minimum Wage for first time
b) Created Low income housing for the poor
c) Equal Pay Act for women
d) The Alliance for Progress - gave $20 Billion to Latin America build schools, hospitals & homes
e) Created the Peace Corps
f) Sent people to the Moon on a space race against Russia
Russia beat us 1961 people orbiting Earth
By 1969 we had people on the Moon

15. Kennedy’s Personal Life:

16. III. The Bay of Pigs
A) Fidel Castro overthrows corrupt Dictator Fulgencio Batista
Allies with Russia
Nationalizes all businesses, redistributes all land (Communism)
B) We fail miserably:
,400 Cuban Exiles trained by the CIA land in the Bay of Pigs.
Kennedy cancelled Air Attacks to keep it a secret
1,400 Exiles all killed or captured
Horrible because:
1) Exposed America’s plot to overthrow governments
2) Made us look weak and disorganized

17. Video on Bay of Pigs

18. IV. The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Closest we ever came to a Nuclear Apocalypse
1) CIA Learns missile launchers being built
We respond with Naval Quarantine - blocking all boats around Cuba
2) Kennedy vs. Nikita Krushchev
For 14 days, world stood still as harsh words exchanged threatening nuclear warfare
We both had 1,000+ Nukes!!!! ?!!?!?!?!
3) Resolution:
They removed missiles from Cuba, we removed missiles from Turkey
4) Consequences:
Khrushchev replaced.. seen as weak for retreating
Russia builds up more arms...

19. Missile Range

20. Video on Cuban Missile Crisis

21. V. Kennedy’s Assassination
November 22, 1963
Kennedy & Wife were in Dallas, TX in a parade
Shot twice by Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee assassinated the next day
Many questions left unanswered… many conspiracy theories exist about kennedy assassination…
Kennedy was president for 1,000 days, yet did more than most presidents.

22. Kennedy Assassination vid