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The Kennedy Administration

The Kennedy Administration. The Kennedy Administration. The “New Frontier”  1,000 Days A torch has been passed to a new generation… A call to government service  Ask not, what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Domestic Issues. 1960-1961 Recession.

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The Kennedy Administration

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  1. The Kennedy Administration

  2. The Kennedy Administration • The “New Frontier” 1,000 Days • A torch has been passed to a new generation… • A call to government service  Ask not, what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  3. Domestic Issues • 1960-1961 Recession. • Increase minimum wage [$1 to $1.25] • Federal tax cut. • Unemployment. • Steel Crisis (1962). • Space Program. • April, 1961  Yuri Gagarin • May, 1961  Alan B. Shephard, Jr. • 1962  John Glenn

  4. Domestic Issues • Civil Rights. • 24th Amendment  prohibited poll taxes. • 1960  “Sit-Ins” in Greensboro, NC Woolworths. • 1961  “Freedom Riders.” • 1962  James Meredith’s desegregation of the University of Mississippi. • Spring, 1963  Birmingham, AL • Police Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor • August, 1953  “March on Washington” • MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech.

  5. Foreign Policy Issues • “Flexible Response”  conventional forces plus nuclear weapons. • Peace Corps • Aid Programs  Alliance for Progress • Bay of Pigs Disaster (1961) • Berlin Crisis (1961)  Berlin Wall built • Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) • “The Missiles of October.” • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)

  6. Foreign Policy Issues • Vietnam • Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem. • Increase of American military “advisors.” • S. E. A. T. O. (South East Asia Treaty Organization)

  7. Foreign Policy Issues • Vietnam • Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem. • Increase of American military “advisors.” • S. E. A. T. O. (South East Asia Treaty Organization)

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