1. Creating Modern America in the 50s & 60s
The Cold War & Kennedy:

2. 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

3. Kennedy & Cuba Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1963
Failed CIA plan to use Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro

4. 2nd Berlin Crisis Berlin Wall, 1963 Pg. 595 Summarize

5. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Soviets building underground sites to launch missiles pg. 596

6. 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”

7. 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