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length of Kennedys presidency

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1961-63

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Eisenhowers errors that helped Kennedy win the election (4)

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  • refusing to endorse nixon - defended his own record instead
  • refused to deny missile gap (would escalate arms race)
  • stopped Nixon calling for full candidate health disclosure
  • federal budget surplus that contributed to a recession
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Nixons errors that helped K win (3)

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  • didn’t let eisenhower campaign for him till 1960
  • campaigned in all 50 states (exhaustion)
  • eisenhower advised him not t debate with Kennedy (just free advertisement for k)
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when was his new frontier speech (month and year)

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July 1960

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4 new frontier ideas

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poverty and surplus
fight Cold War
ignorance and prejudice
science and space

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who was his sec of defence

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McNamara

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what was the problem with who Kennedy chose in his administration

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inexperienced in govt

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why did Kennedy choose LBJ as VP

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win southern voters

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why is Kennedys legislative record unimpressive

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congress rejected so much ]- civil rights , healthcare for elderly etc

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positives and negatives of area redevelopment act of 1961

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+ 26,000 jobs and training programmes
+ helped in impoverished states such as West Virginia
- 5 mil remained unemployed
- congress underfunded then refused to renew act in 63

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why was the manpower and development and training act ineffective

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benefitted officials and private interests more than workers

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benefits and negative of minimum wage increase

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+ raised to $1.25
- half a mil without coverage

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what did Kennedy extend that helped generate jobs

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interstate highway system

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what is the omnibus housing act

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granted 5 bil for public housing and urban renewal
- helped developers more than poor

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what did Kennedy do to help feed poor

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food stamps

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16
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when did Castro overthrow cuban dictator

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1559

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what did Castro criticise about America

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their economic stranglehold over Cuba
- he threatened americas property interests

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how did eisenhower respond to castors threats about property

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joint CIA cuban exile invasion to overthrow Castro

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what had Kennedy promised in his 1960 elections about Cuba

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  • for it not to become a soviet base
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when did exiles land at bay of pigs (month and year’)

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April 1961

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how many cuban exiles at bay of pigs

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1600

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two reasons why bay of pigs failed

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  • insufficient aid
  • castro was forewarned
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3 results of failure of bay of pigs

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  • Kennedy humiliated
  • castro declared he was a communist ( drew closer to soviets)
  • Khrushchev thought K weak so thought he could get away with installing nuclear missiles in Cuba
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when happened in august 1962

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soviet missiles and technicians arrived in Cuba

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what did Kennedy establish to deal with cuban missile crisis

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ExComm (national security council)

26
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what did Kennedy call the blockade to sound less aggressive

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quarantine

27
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why did he want a naval blockade for cuban missile crisis

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stop soviet shipments of men and materials to Cuba

28
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what did Kennedy withdraw the blockade line to in oct to give Khrushchev more time to think

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800 to 500 miles

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what were Khrushchevs demands to end cuban missile crisis

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  • if Kennedy halted blockade and promised not to invade
    (also wanted removal of American missiles from turkey but Kennedy ignored this)
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significance of cuban missile crisis

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  • soviets humiliated (contributed to Khrushchevs fall from power)
  • sobered by crisis so hotline installed for ussr and usa for future emergencies
  • first attempt to slow nuclear arms race
31
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what was significant about august 1963

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partial nuclear test ban treaty

32
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why was east germanys economy damaged

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2 million had fled to west

33
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when did East Germans build Berlin Wall

month and year

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august 1961

34
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significance of Berlin Wall (4)

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  • divided west and east
  • increased west German anxiety and anti communist hostility
  • Kennedy went to Berlin to assure him he was a berliner
  • Kennedy did nothing to stop it - made khru think he could get away with missiles in Cuba
35
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why did Kennedy continue involvement in Vietnam

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  • containment + domino theory
  • wanted to prove himself after bay of its
  • military advisors such as McNamara and risk urged him
36
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how many American advisors assisted diem by 1963

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17,000

37
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who organised the first of the freedom rides and what was their aim

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core
- integrated group travelled on interstate buses to test Supreme Court rulings on interstate travel

38
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how did racists react to freedom riders + response of govt

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  • burnt buses so R. Kennedy responded to enforce the supreme ruling
39
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why did MLK choose birgiingham

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Bull Connor would react violently and it would gain publicity

40
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who is the public safety commissioner in Alabama, Birmingham

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bull Connor

41
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who organised the march on Washington

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Phillip Randolph

42
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two main aims of march on Washington

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  • encourage passing of Kennedys civil rights bill
  • increased black employment opportunities
43
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how many were at the march of Washington

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250,000

44
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3 things Kennedy did to help af-ams

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  • appointed lots into federal positions + five black federal judges
  • equal employment opportunity commission
  • brought 57 cases against illegal violation of black voting rights in south
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3 reasons why Kennedy failed at conquering ‘ignorance and prejudice’

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  • didn’t want to respond to ‘unpatriotic’ freedom riders - forced tp due to violence
  • situation in north
  • 46% of unemployed Americans were black
46
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what all white uni did James Meredith seek entry to

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Mississippi

47
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how did Robert Kennedy help James Meredith

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due to violence sent Mississippi national guard and us army regulars

48
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why was the USA the world’s most powerful nation by 1963

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  • more missiles and superior navy
  • soviets surrounded by US military bases in allied nations
  • NATO and SEATO
49
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what demonstrated soviet unpopularity in east Europe

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Hungarian revolt of 1956

50
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what is the peace corps

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improve usa image abroad
- young volunteers sent to help poorer nations help themselves through teaching and technical aid programmes

51
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aim of peace corps

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counter soviet propaganda of usa exploiting weaker nations

52
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how many countries did peace corps work in

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44

53
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when did Kennedy ask congress to finance putting American on the moon

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1961

54
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when did man go on moon

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1969

55
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what was on Americans major concerns in spring 1963 poll

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inflation and unemployment

56
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what did ‘the affluent society’ book emphasise

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  • permanent American underclass
57
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what did Harringtons ‘the other America’ say

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40-60 million Americans in poverty

58
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what were most black southerners employed in

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low paid sharecropping or domestic occupations

59
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what exacerbated housing shortage for black Americans

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city councils tearing down black neighbourhoods in name of urban renewal

60
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why were women facing persistent inequality (4)

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  • mainly in low paid jobs (waitresses)
  • treated badly (airlines fired women in 30s)
  • 80% of teachers but 10% of principals
  • educated women steered towards ‘caring’ occupations (nursing)
61
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what did some schools do to pregnant girls and women

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fire pregnant teachers and students

62
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when did feminine mystique come out

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1963

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