1. Modern America
Objective: to evaluate the impact of the Kennedy Administration on the Cold War and American culture.
Agenda:
Warm Up
Turn in “I Have a Dream” Speech
Kennedy Administration
“What Happened at the Bay of Pigs?”

2. What qualities do you think a president should have?
Warm Up
What qualities do you think a president should have?

3. Today’s Terms 1960 Election Camelot The “Third World”
Flexible response
Peace Corps
Alliance for Progress
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs invasion

4. Election of 1960 Richard M. Nixon John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhouse Nixon. Open up your textbooks to page 616 and either alone or with a partner, read the paragraph titled “The Candidates”. You’re going to be looking for the advantages or disadvantages each guy had for becoming president, like their experience and their background. CFU: What page? What paragraph? What are you looking for? Three minutes, go. Transition to ActivStudio to make list
Watch clip
Outcome:
Look in book on page 617 how much did JFK really win by?
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy

5. Camelot
America fell in love with the Kennedys; thought he would bring new life and vigor into American battle against the Cold War.

6. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Elected 1960
Seen as American Royalty
Brother Bobby appointed as Attorney General
Married to Jackie
Had major conflicts during his Presidency
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam
Assassinated November 22, 1963

7. JFK Inaugural Address
JFK 1
JFK 2
JFK 3

8. The “Third World”
Map: developing nations after WWII and fall of imperialism
New ground to fight the battle of the Cold War need dominance. Remember, why did the federal government view the civil rights issues as an embarrassment for the US around the world?  are the people who live here white?
Response: Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress- how would this be another way to fight the Cold War abroad?

9. New Cold War Strategies
Military “Flexible Response”
Containing Communism
Defense policy that prepared the US to fight in any type of conflict
Increase funding to Special Forces
Programs to develop third world nations economically and politically
Peace Corps
Alliance for Peace

10. Kennedy Administration
Crises
Bay of Pigs Invasion
April 17, 1961
Berlin Wall
June 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis
August-September, 1962
New Frontier
Civil Rights
Legislation (1963)
Desegregation of schools
Space Exploration
Put a man on the moon by 1970
Economics
Equal Pay Act of 1963

11. Fidel Castro 1959: overthrows corrupt Cuban government
1960: aligns with the Soviet Union
sending thousands a refugees to the US
Sours relationship with US

12. “What Happened at the Bay of Pigs?”
1. According to the reading, the idealism of the Peace Corps covered up what?
2. What was the goal of La Brigada/The Brigade?
3. How was the Mafia involved in the Bay of Pigs?
4. Why did the rebels that made up La Brigada come to the US?
5. Identify at least four mistakes made by the US during the Bay of Pigs invasion. How could they have been avoided?
6. Why did Kennedy not want to send in more troops?
Was this a good decision or bad decision? Why?