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04/10/2014 1 The New Frontier and the Great Society Chapter 15 NB Pages 106 and 107 Initiative Success Failure Defense funding Equal Pay Act (affirmed women’s right to equal pay for equal work) Funding for space exploration Tax cuts Healthcare for seniors Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act Reduced wage increases from labor unions Lower prices from steel companies Funding for education Area Redevelopment Act and Housing Act Supreme Court Case Civil Rights Baker v. Carr (1962) Drawing of electoral districts Reynolds v. Sims (1964) States must rearrange electoral districts to be “one person, one vote” Supreme Court Case Due Process Mapp v. Ohio (1961) Cannot use evidence in a way that violated the US Constitution Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) In state courts, you have a right to a lawyer, regardless of your ability to pay Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) Suspects must have access to a lawyer and be informed of their right to remain silent before police questioning Miranda v. Arizona (1966) Authorities MUST inform suspects that they have the right to remain silent, anything they say can and will be used against them in a court of law, they have the right to a lawyer and if they can’t afford one they will be appointed for you. Supreme Court Case Freedom of Speech and Religion Engle v. Vitale (1962) State cannot have official prayers or require prayers in public schools Abington School Abington School District v. Schempp (1963) States cannot require Bible readings in public schools Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) States cannot prohibit the sale and use of birth control devices 1. Kennedy continued to enforce what policy towards Communism? 2. Unlike Eisenhower, Kennedy preferred not to rely on a nuclear arsenal d d t d thi 1. Containment 2. A buildup of troops and conventional weapons (small arms, bombs, missiles, rockets) to support a “flexible h” and advocated this instead? 3. What did the Alliance for Progress do? approach” 3. Provided economic assistance for schools, housing, heath care, etc. to Latin American countries.

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The New Frontier and the Great Societyy

Chapter 15

NB Pages 106 and 107

Initiative Success Failure

Defense funding

Equal Pay Act (affirmed women’s right to equal pay for equal work)

Funding for space exploration

Tax cuts

Healthcare for seniors

Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health

Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act

Reduced wage increases from labor unions

Lower prices from steel companies

Funding for education

Area Redevelopment Act and Housing Act

Supreme Court Case Civil Rights

Baker v. Carr (1962) Drawing of electoral districts

Reynolds v. Sims (1964)States must rearrange electoral districts to be “one person, one vote”

Supreme Court Case Due Process

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)Cannot use evidence in a way that violated the US Constitution

Gideon v. Wainwright(1963)

In state courts, you have a right to a lawyer, regardless of your ability to pay

Escobedo v. Illinois(1964)

Suspects must have access to a lawyer and be informed of their right to remain silent before police questioning

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Authorities MUST inform suspects that they have the right to remain silent, anything they say can and will be used against them in a court of law, they have the right to a lawyer and if they can’t afford one they will be appointed for you.

Supreme Court Case Freedom of Speech and Religion

Engle v. Vitale (1962)State cannot have official prayers or require prayers in public schools

Abington School

Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)

States cannot require Bible readings in public schools

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

States cannot prohibit the sale and use of birth control devices

1. Kennedy continued to enforce what policy towards Communism?

2. Unlike Eisenhower, Kennedy preferred not to rely on a nuclear arsenal d d t d thi

1. Containment

2. A buildup of troops and conventional weapons (small arms, bombs, missiles, rockets) to support a “flexible 

h”and advocated this instead?

3. What did the Alliance for Progress do?

approach”

3. Provided economic assistance for schools, housing, heath care, etc. to Latin American countries.

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4. Why was the alliance sometimes unsuccessful?

5. Kennedy also established the Peace Corps, an organization that did what?

4. Money was sent through existing governments who kept the money rather than use it to help their country.

5 US citizens volunteered inwhat? 5. US citizens volunteered in developing nations to provide humanitarian services like medical care.

The Space Race!

Year Event

1947 First animal in space – Fruit Flies

1949 First monkey in space – Albert II (Rhesus monkey)

1951 First dogs in space – Tsygan and Dezik (Russian)

1957Sputnik launched into orbit – first satellite

Fi i l i bi (d ) L ik S ik IIFirst animal in orbit (dog) – Laika on Sputnik II

1961 Yury Gagarin first person to orbit Earth

1962 John Glenn first US astronaut to orbit Earth

1965 Three US astronauts orbit Earth aboard Apollo

1969US astronauts land on the moon using the Saturn V rocket and lunar module

(Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Cause

• Under Fidel Castro, Cuba creates an alliance with Soviet Union

Effect

• La Brigada – a US trained and armed group of Cuban rebels – invade to incite a 

l ti• Cuban govn’t seized US businesses in Cuba

• Khrushchev supported expanding Cuban military

revolution

• Mission failed and most were captured or killed

Construction of the Berlin Wall

Cause

• Khrushchev demands that Western forced leave West Berlin and recognize East G i t

Effect

• In response, Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall through the city

German sovereignty

• Kennedy refused • This cuts off the two sides 

and prevents the migration of East Germans to the West.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cause

• Soviets sent weapons and military equipment to Cuban and stationed long‐

l i il th

Effect

• Kennedy quarantines the island to prevent further missiles from arriving and d d d th t i tirange nuclear missiles there

• Soviets would remove missiles is US did not attack and removed their missiles from Turkey

demanded that existing missiles be taken down

• Both countries agreed to ban testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere

• This begins a new arms race

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Kennedy’s Assassination

• November 22, 1963

• In a motorcade with his wife in Dallas, Texas

• Shot twice in the head

• Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the yshooting – claimed political reasons

• Oswald was killed two days later when leaving a Dallas police headquarters by Jack Ruby

• Warren Commission (investigation of the shooting) concluded Oswald acted alone

Motorcade through Dallas

Lee Harvey OswaldJackRuby 

And so Vice‐President Johnson became president…

• Lyndon B. Johnson had 26 years of experience in Congress

• He was known for his ability to find a consensus and build coalitionsconsensus and build coalitions

– This means he knew how to work with Congress to the legislation he wanted.

• The Other America estimated that more than 50 million Americans lived in poverty