1. Do Now: Page 957

2. Kennedy and the Cold War
Chapter 28 section 1

3. The 1960 Campaign
22nd Amendment: limited Presidents tenure to two elected terms
Democrats pick Senator John F. Kennedy from Massachusetts
Charismatic
WW2 vet
BUT Roman Catholic
Running mate: senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas
Republicans chose Richard Nixon
Eisenhower's VP
Downplayed role in HUAC
Running mate: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts
Kennedy vs Nixon

4. First Televised Presidential Debate 1960
PRE-DEBATES: looks like Nixon is going to win
DEBATES: Nixon looks old and tired
POST DEBATES: looks like Kennedy is going to win

5. Turn to page 962 answer both thinking critically questions
“I promise you no sure solutions, no easy life. The years ahead for all of us will be as difficult as any in our history. There are new frontiers for America to conquer in education, in science, in national purpose-nor frontiers on a map, but frontiers of the mind, the will, the spirit of man”
Turn to page 962 answer both thinking critically questions

6. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
Kennedy was the youngest person ever to be elected president. His
youth helped provide the theme to his inaugural address:
“Let the word go forth…
That the torch has been
passed to a new
generation of Americans…
The energy, the faith, the
devotion which we bring
to this endeavor will light
our country and all who
serve it…And so, my fellow
Americans-ask not what
your country can do for
you-ask what you can do
for your country.”

7. Kennedy Wins At age 43 youngest elected US president
(TR was the youngest ever at 42)
First Catholic President

8. Kennedy’s Foreign Policy
Followed Cold War policies of predecessors
Nuclear build up
Contain communism
BUT….define flexible response
Established the Green Berets

9. Foreign Aid
Aid programs to Africa, Asia, and Latin America to contain communism
1st program=Peace Corp

10. The Bay of Pigs On the nights of April 17,1961, some 1500 Cuban exiles
supported by the U.S. military
landed on the island’s
southern coast at Baja de
Cochinos, the Bay of Pigs. The
CIA and the exiles hoped it
would trigger a mass uprising
that would overthrow Castro.
It didn’t! Cuban forces, backed
by Soviet tanks and jet aircraft,
easily repelled the exile invasion.
Some of the exiles were killed,
others imprisoned.

11. Crisis Over Cuba The first test of Kennedy’s
foreign policy came in Cuba,
just 90 miles off the coast of
Florida. Revolutionary leader,
Fidel Castro, openly declared
himself a communist and
welcomed aid from the
Soviet Union.

12. History DVD Video
Prelude to Crisis

13. Cuban Missile Crisis In October, 1962, photographs taken
by American planes
revealed Soviet
missile bases in
Cuba-and some
contained missiles
ready to launch.
They could reach
U.S. cities in
minutes.

14. If the Soviets set up missiles in Cuba they could reach every US city BUT…?

15. On October 22,
Kennedy ordered
a naval blockade
of Cuba to prevent
further deliveries
of Soviet weapons.
He also demanded
that the Soviets
remove the missiles.
Khrushchev promised to
challenge the blockade,
calling it “outright banditry.”

16. For a few days, nuclear war and massive destruction was a
distinct possibility for every American. In schools, children
practiced air raid drills, a common occurrence during the Cold
War. People who had built bomb shelters began stocking
them with food and other provisions. Even the president called
his family to the White House where they could be protected in
the presidential nuclear shelter.

17. Suddenly, on October 24, many of the Soviet ships stopped short
of the blockade line, turned, and sailed home. “We’re eyeball to
eyeball,” said Secretary of State Dean Rusk, “and I think the
other fellow just blinked.” On October 28 Khrushchev agreed
to dismantle the missile bases in response to Kennedy’s promise
not to invade Cuba.

18. The Berlin Crisis
August 1961, East Germans erect barbed wire barrier that cut off east (Soviet) and west (Democratic) Berlin
Barrier halts the mass departure of East Germans to the West through Berlin

19. Kennedy and Berlin (VideohistDVDs
One of the high points
of Kennedy’s foreign
travels was a trip he
made to Berlin in 1963
to dramatize America’s
commitment to West
Berlin and West Germany.
In a speech at the Berlin
Wall, Kennedy electrified
an audience of about 150,000
Germans by stating , “Ich bin
ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner),
thus declaring the solidarity of
all free people with the people
of West Berlin.

20. JFK is Assassinated in Dallas
November 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald, perched by a window on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, fired 3 shots at the President
The third shot hit Kennedy in the back of the head

21. Vice President LBJ sworn in on Air Force One only hours after