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M R . W I L L I A M S

The Kennedy and Johnson Years(1960-1968)

Unit Eight (Ch. 15)

Kennedy and Johnson(1960-1968)

Ch. 15-1: Kennedy and the Cold War

What you know

You have learned

That the Cold War began at the end of World War II.

Berlin Airlift Communist China Korean War Nuclear Arms Race Sputnik

Truman Doctrine – …will help…

Eisenhower & Massive Retaliation

MAD

What you will know

Now you will learn

How President John Kennedy responded to Soviet aggression during the Cold War.

Initial meeting with Khrushchev

Peace Corps

Alliance for Progress

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Build Background Knowledge

What are the benefits of being young?

What are the benefits of being old?

Kennedy Defeats Nixon in 1960

YouTube - Kennedy-Nixon Debate

Flexible Response

Nuclear Forces Airplanes & bombs Submarines & missiles Intercontinental Missiles

Conventional Forces Troops Airplanes Tanks

Kennedy Launches New Cold War Strategies

YouTube - Flexible Response

The Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress

Peace Corps (successful)

Spread American good-will to help prevent the spread of communism Clean water Agriculture Education Health Care “Democracy and Capitalism”

Alliance for Progress (not successful) Central American countries resentful of our

interference (anti-communist) …promoted economic assistance…

$ to help prevent the spread of communism

Kennedy Launches New Cold War Strategies

YouTube - Peace Corps

YouTube - Alliance for Progress

Confronting Communism

in Cuba