The USA by 1963 pg 97-104

Question 1

Example of how much the public adored JFK?

Answer 1

24 November 1963 hundreds of thousands of people showed up to JFK’s funeral procession estimated 1 million people lined up the streets of Washington DC

Question 2

What was passed after the CMC?

Answer 2

The signing of a Limited Test Ban Treaty ratified by Congress in October 1963, banned teaching nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, space or underwater

Question 3

When and who was the next Soviet leader?

Answer 3

October 1964 Khruschev was replaced with Brezhnev

Question 4

What were Kennedys attempts at containment?

Answer 4

Kennedy attempted to rebuild relations with Latin America to prevent Soviet inroads
the creation of Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress ha intentions of securing these relations and keeping communism out

Question 5

When and what was the Alliance for Progress

Answer 5

The Alliance for Progress was a 10-year plan proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to foster economic cooperation between North and South America, particularly aimed at countering the perceived communist threat from Cuba.

Question 6

Kennedy involvement in Uruguay

Answer 6

JFK promised Urugauy 20 billion of US aid over 10 years in 1961 intending to increase per capita income by 2.5%, establishing a democratic government, eliminating illiteracy, and promoting land reform. (The program saw a major decrease in funding during Nixon’s)

Question 7

Kennedy and the MOON

Answer 7

JFK given a televised speech asking for 1,700 million more for landing America on the moon by 1970 prior to the Russians success this was achieved by Neil Armstrong in 1969

Question 8

Why was Kennedy’s foreign policy hypocritical?

Answer 8

JFK depended on the CIA to contain communism, Therefore Kennedy’s talk of a global effort for peace seemed hypocritical

Question 9

CIA APRIL 1961

Answer 9

Bay of pigs failed so JFK fired Allen Dulles

Question 10

CIA MAY 1961

Answer 10

CIA removed Rafeal Trujillo in the Dominican Republic

Question 11

What was JFKS biggest weakness by the 1964

Answer 11

economic issues seemed to be JFKs biggest weakness in his campaign for re-election in 1964

Question 12

Kennedy and economics negative

Answer 12

He inherited 6.8% unemployment and unemployment remained 6% and the stock market had failed to recovering after losing a quarter of its value in the last 2 years

Question 13

Why did congress actually not want to pass medicare

Answer 13

several democrats turned against the passing of medicare due too its costs ensuring defeat within senate

Question 14

Kennedy and the battle over tax cut

Answer 14

JFK proposed a huge cut in income tax in 1963 from 20-91% to 14-65% and a cut in corporate tax from 52% to 47%

Question 15

What did JFK claim of his tax cut idea

Answer 15

claimed that the increased spending from reducing taxes would make tax receipts rise too, claiming a “rising tide lifts all boats’
polls showed that over 60% of Americans favored tax cuts

Question 16

JFK economy after his death?

Answer 16

By 1966 the measures Kennedy began saw the economy growing at a rate of 6.6% and the unemployment rate had fallen too 3.8 %

Question 17

Where were the growing pressure for social change coming from and who?

Answer 17

The CR movement prompted other minorities to act eg,
NCAI Nation Congress of American Indians
Women
Youth

Question 18

Who were the NCAI?

Answer 18

National Congress of American Indians
Adopted confidence from the civil rights movement

Question 19

What other movement of minorities also emerged in 1962

Answer 19

A Hispanic rights movement Mexican American workers wanted better working conditions

Question 20

Social issues for woman

Answer 20

95% of managers were men
4% female lawyers
7% female doctors
Woman earned 55% of wages of men when doing the same work

Question 21

Significance of Congresswoman Martha Griffiths

Answer 21

She was critical of questioning the personal manager of National Airlines after their policy of firing stewardesses if they were married or reaches the age of 32 and became evident

Question 22

What was the most significant feminist movement under JFK?

Answer 22

The publishing of the book Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan in 19th February 1963
She questioned why educated women were so disillusioned in the US

Question 23

What is the publication of her book seen as

Answer 23

Seen as the Second wave of feminism in the US

Question 24

Significance of Betty Friedan

Answer 24

Credited with starting the second wave of feminism in us with her book
She founded the National Organization for Women NOW
she was not advocating misandry

Question 25

When was now founded

Answer 25

30th June 1966

Question 26

What did JFK do for women?

Answer 26

JFK introduced the Equal Pay Act as a part of his New Frontier legislation in June 1963, the act banned sexual discrimination in many professions

Question 27

Why did JFK not do enough for women?

Answer 27

He never mentioned the Equal Rights Amendment which continued to be a key issue for women.

Question 28

What was JFK presidency associated with?

Answer 28

the public’s remembrance of President Kennedy by likening him to King Arthur, a hero who embodied courage, diplomacy, and self-sacrifice. They also created the perception that the Kennedy presidency was like the era of Camelot, a mythical time associated with a sense of unfulfilled promise.

Question 29

Youth under JFK

Answer 29

Formation of SNCC
JFK gave a sense of hope and made it seem like anything is possible for the youth unlike how youth disliked LBJ