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KENNEDY AND JOHNSON KENNEDY Election of 1960 -Kennedy (D) -Nixon (R) -showed the importance of TV Kennedy wins - “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” Foreign policy -FLEXIBLE RESPONSE -improve military -Special forces -more nukes TROUBLES -Berlin -Khruschev closes Berlin -Berlin Wall -Cuba - 1959 Communist Revolution -Fidel Castro -kicked America out -Bay of Pigs -failed CIA invasion of Cuba -Result -Soviets send missiles -CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS!!!!! CLOSEST THE WORLD HAS COME TO WORLD WAR III!!!!!! Effects -Hotline -USSR and US -Test Ban Treaty KENNEDY DOMESTIC -NEW FRONTIER -deficit spending -vocational retraining -defense -fighting poverty overseas -PEACE CORPS -young people -develop 3rd world -ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS -economic and technical -Latin America SPACE RACE -SPUTNIK (1957) -first satellite -Russian -EXPLORER 1 -first American satellite -NASA -Yuri Gagarin -Vostok -first man in space -cosmonaut -Kennedy says “America will be the first to the moon” -ALAN SHEPHARD -first astronaut -JOHN GLENN -first American in orbit -disaster -Apollo 1 -astronauts die in fire -Challenger (1986) -APOLLO 11 -NEIL ARMSTRONG - “ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND” NOVEMBER 22,1963 DALLAS, TEXAS JOHNSON GREAT SOCIETY -end racial discrimination -END POVERTY -Job Corps -VISTA -Volunteers in Service to America -Head Start -Medicare (elderly) -Medicaid (poor) -Environment -Water Quality and Clean Air Act -Rachael Carson -Silent Spring -Consumer protection -Unsafe at Any Speed -Ralph Nader EFFECTS -government grew -increased budget deficit -poverty decreases