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

2. Kennedy-Nixon TV Debate
JFK Nixon Debate

3. 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.”

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

5. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

6. 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

7. Kennedy Ich bin ein Berliner (1:09)

8. Bay of Pigs fiasco

9. Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy Addresses Nation on the Missile Crisis

10. Peace Corps

11. 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.

12. Images of “Camelot”

13. Kennedy Assassination

14. Ruby shoots Oswald

15. Kennedy’s Funeral

16. The (Earl) Warren Court

17. Lyndon Johnson

18. Election of 1964
"Daisy" Commercial

19. 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....

20. 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]

21. Johnson’s “War on Poverty”

22. 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

23. 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) s
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

24. Influential Books

25. “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.”