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U2 Incident• America is secretly flying operative missions over
Russia• U2 servalliance plan is shot down• US military denies at first…and then they have to
admit it happened• Makes US look bad in two ways:
1. Russia’s military got took out a secret plane2. We lie about it and THEN tell the truth
U-2 Incident
Kruschev looking at wreckage of U2
Castro Comes to Power• In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator
Fulgencio Batista.• Castro was a communist and made alliance with USSR.• The CIA began to monitor Cuba for fear of a Soviet
attack.• Castro took over all US businesses in Cuba…US
stopped buying their sugar• We become enemies• Now we have Communist enemy in Cuba only 90 miles
south of Florida.
Bay of Pigs Crisis• a group of Cuban exiles named La Brigada,
invaded Cuba and tried to overthrow Castro.• La Brigada was armed by the US military• Within two days most of the 1,400 men were
killed or captured.• This was a bad mission with a bad plan…• JFK’s biggest failure…• Now Castro hates us…• This sucks…
Cuban Missile Crisis• Due to the Bay of Pigs, the relationship between the U.S.
and Cuba was terrible.• Castro had a very good relationship with the USSR.• During the summer of 1962, a spy plane took pictures of
nuclear missiles on Cuba.• These missiles were put there by the USSR.• JFK orders a complete military blockage
Cuban Missile Crisis part 2Slide 4 of 7
• For about 13 days tensions were very high and nuclear war was near.
• An agreement was worked out between the U.S. and USSR:
• The U.S. was not to invade Cuba and remove nuclear missiles from Turkey.
• The USSR agreed to remove all nuclear missiles from Cuba.
• This Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest our country has ever been to nuclear war.
Missiles were capable of reaching basically any part of the US
The Death of JFK• On November 22 1963, JFK was in Dallas
Texas working on his re-election.• He was riding in a convertible with his wife
and the governor of Texas.• Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly shot JFK from
the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building.
• A few days later, a Chicago night club owner named Jack Ruby shot Oswald.
Lyndon Johnson• On board Air Force One, Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) took the
oath of office.• He was 55 years old when he became President.• His wife was Claudia Taylor. Her nickname was Lady Bird.• The election of 1964 was LBJ (D) vs. Barry Goldwater (R).• LBJ would win the election and quickly went to work on his
plans for America.
The Great Society• This plan by LBJ made many improvements in America:• Two main goals:
– 1) Put an end to poverty– 2) Put an end to racism
–Programs Created1. Civil Rights Act of 1964- Barred
discrimination in many ways (no segregation of public facilities, no job based discrimination, etc)
2. Medicare and Medicaid- Helped the elderly with health care cost.3. Head Start- Helped preschoolers who did not know how to color, etc.4. Robert Weaver- First black cabinet member.