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Bell Ringer

Bell Ringer. What conspiracy theories have you heard of? Explain. Starting to Heat Up. JFK and the Cold War. Let the Word Go Forth.

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Bell Ringer

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  1. Bell Ringer • What conspiracy theories have you heard of? Explain.

  2. Starting to Heat Up JFK and the Cold War

  3. Let the Word Go Forth • Let the word go forth from this time and place…that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans-born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage-and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed…Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

  4. A More Flexible Response • Didn’t want nuclear war • Build up of conventional troops and weapons • Creates the Special Forces-soldiers trained in guerilla warfare • Known as the Green Berets for their green berets

  5. The Peace Corps • Organization that sent young Americans to perform humanitarian services in developing nations • Requires rigorous training • Spend two years abroad • Constructing new sewage systems • Teaching English • Building roads • Building schools

  6. Space Race Revisited • “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon.” • Saturn V: world’s largest and most powerful rocket ever built • Enough velocity to escape Earth’s gravitational pull

  7. The Eagle Has Landed • July 16, 1969 • Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins land on the moon • “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

  8. The Bay of Pigs • Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba • Forms alliance with USSR • Alarms Americans • CIA trains Cuban rebels • Rebel boats run aground on coral reefs • Kennedy cancels air support to hide American involvement • Rebels are captured • Made US look weak and unorganized

  9. The Wall Goes Up • Krushchev wanted democracy out of Berlin • Kennedy refuses • Krushchev builds a wall cutting off East Berlin • Physical symbol of Cold War

  10. Cuban Missile Crisis • USSR puts nukes in Cuba • Blockade of Cuba • Secret negotiations-USSR would remove its missiles if US removed missiles in Turkey • Crisis averted

  11. Close to Nuclear War • Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest we’d come to nuclear war since WWII • Humiliating retreat out of Cuba began Krushchev’s downfall • Showed Soviet inferiority • Soviets start building up their military • Soviet build up=American buildup

  12. Death of a President

  13. November 22, 1963 • Dallas, TX • Political Appearances • Gunfire rang out • One to chest • One to head

  14. Lee Harvey Oswald • Former US Marine • Defected to USSR • Arrested for killing someone else • Confirmed of killing the president • Killed few days later

  15. Conspiracy? • Warren Commission rules that Oswald acted alone • Others don’t believe that • Believe that the man who killed Oswald did it to keep him quiet about others involved in the assassination

  16. America in Mourning • Thousands traveled to Washington to see his casket • Line stretched for miles • Millions watched on TV • Succeeded by Lyndon B Johnson

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