1. The New Frontier
Chapter 28, Section 2

2. New Frontier
Kennedy’s broad range of social programs – health care, living conditions, education, etc.
Couldn’t gather enough votes to get it passed.

3. Kennedy’s Cabinet Robert McNamara (business exec) – Sec of Defense
John Kenneth Galbraith (economist)

4. Economic Success Faced down big steel execs over a price increase
Achieved a rollback
Economic stimulation – increased defense and space spending

5. Foreign Affairs Trade Expansion Act of 1962
Tariff reduction w/ European Economic Community (Common Market)

6. Deficit Spending Kennedy’s advisors push for deficit spending
Minimum wage gets increased to $1.25

7. Peace Corps
Kennedy tackles poverty abroad as well

11. Alliance for Progress
Economic and technical assistance for Latin American countries

12. Space Race 1961- USSR – first man in space
1 month later – US man in space
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) began work at Cape Canaveral, FL and Houston, TX

13. Man on the Moon
July 20, 1969 – US puts a man on the moon – Neil Armstrong

15. The Other America
Michael Harrington’s 1962 book showed that 50 million Americans lived below the poverty level ($1,000 per person)

16. Tragedy in Dallas
November 22, 1963 – President Kennedy shot and killed while riding in motorcade in Dallas, TX.
Who? Why?

19. Lee Harvey Oswald arrested
Shot on live TV while being transferred
Shot by Jack Ruby

22. Warren Commission 1963 – says that Oswald acted alone
1979 – reinvestigation says that Oswald was part of a conspiracy

23. “I feel like the Negro has lost a savior. I admired Kennedy
“I feel like the Negro has lost a savior. I admired Kennedy. He was a person one could look up to…I feel insecure, unsafe. The future looks quite uncertain. I hate to think about it.”
Karen Parker, first African-American female to graduate from UNC