Kennedy and Johnson Readings P. 952-972

Kennedy and Johnson readings p. 952-972

1. What two major issues faced the United States during the election of 1960?

2. Who were the two candidates in the 1960 election? Describe their backgrounds?

3. Describe the Nixon-Kennedy debate and people’s beliefs on who won.

4. Who won the election of 1960?

5. How did Kennedy want the military to be different than it had been?

6. What were two groups formed by Kennedy to gain support from third world nations around the world? How were these groups intended to gain support?

7. Who had become the new leader of Cuba in 1959? How did he change Cuba? How did this impact US relations with Cuba? What did most wealthy Cubans do during this period?

8. What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion? Was it successful?

9. Who had become the new leader of the Soviet Union when Stalin died?

10. Describe the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

11. What happened in Berlin in 1961? Why did it occur?

12. What did Kennedy call his domestic policy agenda? What 5 areas did the policy try to improve?

13. What was the economic belief of John Maynard Keynes? How did Kennedy use this belief to improve the economy? 14. What was Kennedy’s first attempt at Civil Rights reform?

15. Who was Yuri Gagarin? Who was Alan Shepard?

16. What space program promise did Kennedy say the US would accomplish by 1970?

17. How, where, and when did Kennedy die?

18. Who became President after Kennedy? Describe his background?

19. What was included in Johnson’s “War on Poverty”?

20. Who ran against Johnson for President in 1964? How were their goals different?

21. What did Johnson call his domestic policy plan?

22. Describe Johnson’s plans and accomplishments in

Healthcare-

Education-

The environment-

Immigration

23. Who was Rachel Carson? What did she write? What was it about?

24. What did Ralph Nader write about? 25. Describe the “Warren Court” and how their decisions in the following court cases changed America:

Mapp v Ohio

Gideon v Wainwright

Miranda v Arizona

Engel v Vitale

Abington v Schempp