Election of 1960

• Democratic Candidate

• Republican Candidate

Media and the Cold War

• During this time period media effected the public, probably more than any other time prior.

• Media had a powerful effect of the American citizen and their response to war.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy• Country was ready for

change• Senator in Mass.• W.W.2 Veteran• 43 years old (youngest)• Family very wealthy• Catholic (Pope vs. US)• Texas Senator Lyndon

Baines Johnson (V. Pres)• “Ask not what, your

country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?”

Richard Millhouse Nixon

• Vice President under Eisenhower

• W.W. 2 Veteran also

• Working class family

• One of the closest races in history

• Lost by 120,000 votes of 69 million voters

Cold War• 1956 Nikita Khrushchev

promise the US when he took office “We will bury you.”

• Kennedy declared at Inauguration speech. “that only a few generations have had to defend freedom. We must pay the price and bear any burden.”

• Established Peace Corps to help poor nations

Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy

Cold War lead to Russia gaining satellite (puppet)countries, whileUS was gaining strength through the poorer countries with Peace Corps

Berlin Crises• Put up by JFK• Stop the spread of Soviet Communism into East

Germany• East Germany Democratic

Berlin Wall

Cuban Govt. Overthrown

• By Fidel Castro

• Overthrew Fulgencio Batista Cuban dictator

Bay of Pigs• Bay of Pigs was a top secret military invasion of Cuba

in a failed attempt to overthrow Communist Cuba leader Fidel Castro approved by JFK .

• Kennedy sent 1,400 exiled Cuban exiles into Cuba after secretly training them in Guatemala. The began when American airplanes painted to look like Cuban planes flew under the cover of darkness to bomb Cuba’s airfield and missed nearly every drop to leave Cuba’s Air force completely in power.

• The invasion and ensuing failure strengthened Castro’s position and lead to one of the key events in the Cold War.

Cuban Missile Crises

• Cuba becomes a puppet state of Soviet Union

• Close eye on US

• Soviets provide Fidel Castro with nuclear weapons and set up a missile site

Cuban Missile Crises

The Space Program

• The Soviets and the Americans were not only pushing for world position but also position in space

• Soviets had put “Yuri Gagarin” as the first man in space

• The Americans out did the Soviets by putting “John Glenn” as the first man to orbit Earth

Yuri Gagarin

(First man in space)

John Glenn

(First man to orbit Earth)

Led to the Man on the Moon• Neil Armstrong• First man on

the moon• “One small

step for man, one giant step for mankind!”

Kennedy AssassinatedNovember 22nd, 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald

Jack RubyKilled Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas Night Club

owner (2 days later)

Lyndon Baines Johnson

• All the Way with LBJ (Campaign slogan)

• LBJ vs. AU H2O

• Lead us into Vietnam

• President during the civil rights movement

Civil Rights (segregation)

Plessy vs. FergusonSeparate but Equal

Rosa ParksMontgomery Bus Boycott

refused to sit at the back of the bus

Martin Luther King

• Led “March on Washington”

• “I have a dream!” speech

• Americans hopeful towards White/Black relations

King Jr. Assassinated

• April 4th, 1968

• Age 39

• Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN

• By James Earl Ray – Sentenced 99 yrs. plead guilty– Died in prison age 70

• Shot in the head with a .30 caliber bullet

Malcolm X• Black separatist• Preached that the

whites will never except the Black worlds therefore we should not except the white world

• Opposite of Martin Luther Kings non-violent, non-radical methods

Malcolm X Assassinated• On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was preparing to address

the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom when someone in the 400-person audience yelled, "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket! The distraction lured Malcolm X’s body guards away.

• Thomas Hagen (Talmadge Hayer - Islamic) the shooter shot Malcolm X 21 times in the chest, shoulders and legs to death. Thomas Hagen, Norman Butler and Thomas Johnson were convicted in March 1966 and sentenced to life in prison. Hagen was beaten by the crowd and caight by the police the other two fled but were identified by witnesses.

• Thomas Hagen

The End