HIST 112 1st Edition Lecture 32Kennedy’s PromiseOutline of Last Lecture I. Lead up to election of 1860II. NixonIII. JFKIV. 1860 campaignOutline of Current LectureI. Bay of PigsII. Cuban Missile CrisisIII. Domestic PolicyIV. JFK’s LegacyCurrent Lecture Key Terms: Fidel Castro Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis New Frontier CamelotBay of Pigs Fidel Castro leads Cuban revolution against Batista US is upset because they had good relations with Batista Don’t want a socialist nation so close to the US Goal=overthrow Castro Use Cuban exiles trained by CIA to invade Cuba, spread revolutionary ideas, grow in numbers April 17 1961 Exiles invade alone so that US doesn’t seem involved Everyone killed or captured JFK gives Cuba $53 million in supplies to get hostages releasedCuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. US photograph pics in Cuba of Soviet missiles Options: Destroy missile sites (might start nuclear war) Do nothing and live with huge threat of nuclear attack Decision: US establishes a naval quarantine around Cuba Demand Khrushchev to stop building missile sites Deal: Work on missile sites will stop US will publicly agree not to invade Cuba US quietly removes missiles from Turkey Important that the Cold War was being played out in other country’s revolutionsDomestic Policy – “New Frontier” Attempts to increase aid to elderly (Congress blocks) Attempts to increase spending on education (Congress blocks) Why so much resistance when Congress is mostly democrats? Southern democrats Fear of appearing communist Attempts to end mild recession 1962 federal budget reaches $100 million 1963 tax cuts Keynesian economics- Bad economy = cut taxes, increase spending- Good economy = raise taxes, decrease spending Wants to end segregation (happens later) Proposes putting man on the moon (also happens later) November 22, 1963 JFK shot in Dallas Texas Nation in grief (Pearl Harbor, 9/11) Walter Cronkite weeps on airJFK’s Legacy #3 most admired person of 20th century Was he a good president? Had a lot of ideas and intentions Very little was actually accomplished Grief gives more support to Kennedy’s ideas, they get accomplished after death Represented optimism, ambition, family LBJ was just more skilled at working Congress and getting things
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