EXAM 3 (7-9) Flashcards
JFK(Kennedy )
– Youngest president elected • TR was 42 at succession – Dynamic speaker • ―And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.‖ – Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis – Civil Rights Act – Vietnam – Space Race – Assassinated November 22, 1963
Ambitious New Frontier Program
Medical care for elderly – Tax reform – Federal aid to education – Housing reform – Aid to cities – Immigration reform
• 1961 – Area Redevelopment Act
$394 million program of loans and grants designed to help city and rural areas of low income and/or chronic unemployment
The Manpower retraining Act 1962
Provides 435 million over three years to train unemployed workers in new job skills
– 1961 – Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
US.,Canada and 18 Europe Nations
Trade Expansion ACT 1962
enabled the U.S to establish closer ties with European Common market countries.
Alliance for Progress (Foreign Affairs )
initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America.
The Peace Corps
March 1, 1961 – established by Executive Order – ―To promote world peace and friendship‖ – Counter ―Yankee imperialism‖ • By 1963 – 7,300 volunteers in 44 countries • 1966 – 15,000 volunteers
Bay of Pigs
• April 1961 – Failed Bay of Pigs invasion
– Exiles train in Guatemala (spark general uprising)
– 1,450 invaders land at Bay of Pigs
– Ill Conceived & mismanaged
– Castro responded with gunners, tanks & tactical aircraft
– 1,189 captured, 114 killed, 150 escaped
– Humiliated Kennedy administration
– Condemned by members of UN
– Liberals condemn the invasion, conservatives condemn its
failure
uban Missile Crisis
• Most dangerous crisis of Cold War • Cubans ask Soviets for help after Bay of Pigs – Troops, Technicians & Weapons • Oct 14, 1962 – U.S. discovered missile bases – USSR send fleet with weapons • EXCOMM – Executive Committee of the National Security Council
Berlin Wall
August 13, 1961 – completely enclose West Berlin behind a barbed wire & concrete wall • Kennedy sent additional troops to West Berlin • Created stalemate – Khrushchev stop demanding Western withdrawal
Lyndon B. Johnson
– Great Society – War on Poverty – Job Corps – Department of Housing and Urban Development – Civil rights movement – Escalation of the Vietnam War
1964 Civil Rights Act
guaranteed equal access to all public accommodations such as restaurants, hotels, casinos and movie theaters
1964 State of Union - “War on Poverty”
The War on Poverty included measures for job training and improvement of housing.
Appalachian Regional Development Act (GS)
provided over $1 Billion dollars in subslides for a variety of projects stressing economic development of the region
Housing and Urban Development ACT (GS)
- funding for 240,000 units of low rent housing
- Authorized spending $2.9 million over four years for urban renewal projects.
Medicare & Medicaid
Medicare- Provided health care for people age 65 and over.
Medicaid- provided health care for low-income people not eligible for Medicare.
(Both funded by Social Security )
Elementary & Secondary Education Act
-Funding allocated 1 billion dollars a year to schools with a high concentration of low-income children.
National Wilderness Preservation Act
Established a program for meeting the nation’s future wilderness areas into a national wilderness system.
-funded wilderness preservation and recreation.
– Highway Beautification Act
- a cause pushed by first lady Claudia
- attempts to limit billboards and other forms of outdoor advertising, as well as with junkyards and other unsightly roadside messes, along America’s interstate highways.
– Water Quality Act & Clean Air Act
Made to set up purification programs
Truth in Packaging & Truth in Lending
The former required sellers to label accurately the contents of packages sold for household use.
-The latter required detailed information about the true rate of interest charged on bank loans and credit purchases.
Department of Transportation
enacted the National Traffic & Motor Vehicle Act.
-“Unsafe at any speed”-enhanced public awareness which created new laws
Immigration Act of 1965
1
st comprehensive reform in 40 years
• Abolish national origins quota
• Quotas based on skills & education + family ties
– Chain migrations
• Revived immigration as major social force
– Since 1970 – 40 million immigrants
– Asia, Middle east, Africa, Pacific Islands, Latin America
