1. President Kennedy

2. Add to your notebook President Kennedy 4

3. Criteria Good Boss Truthfulness Dealing with Problems Growing the Economy Dealing with Foreign Countries Connecting with the Public Equality for All Relations with Congress Having a Vision

4. Best Presidents

5. John F. Kennedy Kennedy Family. Youthful and Fashionable Youngest President/ New Generation Very Popular.

6. Inaugural Address “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”

7. New Frontier Support Education Lower Taxes Raise Minimum Wage End Racial Discrimination Increase Defense Spending

8. New Frontier Congress didn’t pass most of his programs “No sense in raising hell & Not being successful” -Kennedy

9. Civil Rights Supported ending Racial Discrimination/Supported MLK. Congress blocked his bills

10. NASA/Space Race 1957: Soviets launch Sputnik. 1 st Satellite in Space. Americans felt like “losers” 1961: Kennedy creates NASA. Goal to get Man on the Moon. (Happened in 1969)

11. Cuba 1959: Castro creates Communist gov. in Cuba. Soviet Ally 90 Miles from US Soil!

12. Bay of Pigs Invasion CIA trained Cuban Exiles to invade Cuba to remove Castro. Captured by Cuban Soldiers. Kennedy took the blame “Victory has a thousand Fathers, Defeat is an Orphan”

13. Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 US Detects Soviet Missile Bases on Cuba.

14. Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 13 Days, Brink of Nuclear War US Blocades Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from bringing Missiles. Soviets Agree to remove missiles from Cuba, US pledges to leave Cuba alone and remove Missiles from Turkey.

15. Berlin Wall East Berlin (Communist) builds wall around West Berlin. Traps E. Berliners in/stops escape to the West. Kennedy visited the Wall, gave a speech. “Freedom is not perfect, but we don’t put up a wall” Wall stayed up.

16. Easing Cold War Tensions Kennedy and Krushchev create a hotline between the 2 nations to ease tensions Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

17. Peace Corps Organization that supports poorer countries. Sends volunteers to help with education, health, Development.

18. Assassination (Nov. 22 1963) Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas

19. Conspiracy? Oswald shot by Jack Ruby? Did Oswald act alone? We don’t know!

20. Draw a Chart in your notebook One side says Not so Great, the other side says Great.

21. Was Kennedy a Great President? (Section 2) Read Through Documents F and G Underline Green for Great/Red for Not so Great On the chart, place the document and the criteria.

22. Was Kennedy a Great President? Read through Documents H and I and do the same thing

23. Craft your Argument Pick through 2 more other documents that can back your argument. Underline Green or Red and place on your chart.