JFK

JOHN F. KENNEDY Kennedy defeats Nixon TV debates propel Kennedy to

victory New era in American politics: the

television age

The New Frontier Improve overall quality of American life

and reenergize American foreign policy Increased minimum wage $1.25 Extended unemployment insurance Increased defense spending by 20% Space program develops - NASA

In 1960, the minimum wage was $1.00 an hour.

Here's what some basics cost in 1960:

New house; $11,700Average monthly rent: $88Gas: 22c a gallonNew car: $2,050Health insurance for family: $75 a month

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Media/Slideshow/2012/04/04/Minimum-Wage-and-What-It-Buys-You-1950s-to-Now.aspx?index=1

Helping Poverty AbroadPeace Corps Program of volunteer assistances to

developing nations

Alliance for Progress Offered economic and technical

assistance to Latin American countries

Fills Cabinet w/ fresh faces

Kennedy’s Foreign Affairs

Flexible Response Preparing for a variety of military

responses to international crisis instead of just focusing on using nuclear weapons

Bay of Pigs Invasion Pro-Soviet Cuban leader Fidel Castro

takes over in 1959 CIA trained anti-Castro refugees

prepare for invasion of Cuba April 1961 – 1,500 invaders are

destroyed by Castro forces

COMPLETE DISASTER!!!

Cuban Missile Crisis – Oct 1962 U-2 spy plane photos reveal nuclear missiles

in Cuba JFK decides to set up a naval quarantine

(blockade of Cuba to stop the flow of missile parts)

Soviet ships turn around at last minute to avoid confrontation

Soviets agree to remove missiles if U.S. pledges not to invade Cuba

U.S. secretly agrees to take out missiles in Turkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtDAQB1sA9k

Berlin Wall Crisis – 1961 11 million East Germans flee to West

BerlinKhrushchev gives deadline of

December for U.S. to withdraw from West Berlin

JFK refuses and Khrushchev builds a wall so East Berliners cannot get into West Berlin

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall/videos/deconstructing-history-berlin-wall

Hotline Established Direct phone line from D.C. to Moscow

Limited Test Ban Treaty Barred nuclear testing in the

atmosphere