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CIVIL RIGHTS WARM-UP • MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. • MALCOLM X CIVIL RIGHTS WARM-UP • MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. • ORGANIZED MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT • FOUNDER OF SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE • GAVE “I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH” • WROTE “LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL” • SUPPORTED NON VIOLENT PROTESTS • ASSASSINATED BY JAMES EARL RAY CIVIL RIGHTS WARM-UP • MALCOLM X • MALCOLM LITTLE WAS HIS NAME AT BIRTH • MEMBER OF THE NATION OF ISLAM • WANTED A SEPARATE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN AMERICANS • IDEAS FORMED THE BASIS FOR THE BLACK PANTHERS • SUPPORTED THE USE OF VIOLENCE ELECTION OF 1960 • PROBLEMS IN AMERICA: • ECONOMIC RECESSION • WAS AMERICA LOSING TO THE SOVIETS IN THE COLD WAR? • WHO RAN? • DEMOCRATIC JOHN KENNEDY • REPUBLICAN RICHARD NIXON • WHAT 2 ISSUES PUSHED KENNEDY OVER THE TOP? • TELEVISION AND CIVIL RIGHTS KENNEDY THE CANDIDATE • ARGUMENTS AGAINST KENNEDY: • HE WAS TOO YOUNG, INEXPERIENCED • HE WAS CATHOLIC • HOW DID THE DEBATE HELP HIM? • HE LOOKED AND SPOKE BETTER THAN NIXON (EVEN THOUGH NIXON WAS MORE KNOWLEDGABLE) • HOW DID MLK HELP HIM? • AFTER MLK WAS ARRESTED FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, JFK GOT HIS BROTHER TO CALL THE JUDGE AND HAVE HIM RELEASED THE CAMELOT YEARS • THE ELECTION WAS THE CLOSEST SINCE 1884 • KENNEDY’S INAUGURATION SET A TONE OF GRACE, ELEGANCE, AND WIT • WHO WAS IN KENNEDY’S INNER CIRCLE? • MCGEORGE BUNDY: A NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR • ROBERT MCNAMARA: SECRETARY OF DEFENSE • DEAN RUSK: SECRETARY OF STATE • ROBERT KENNEDY: ATTORNEY GENERAL FOREIGN POLICY: CASTRO COMES TO POWER • CUBA IS 90 MILES OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA • LED A GUERRILLA MOVEMENT TO TOPPLE FULGENCIO BATISTA • PROMISED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND DICTATORSHIP • U.S. FIRST RECOGNIZED HIS GOVERNMENT, BUT THEN CASTRO SEIZED CONTROL OF U.S. OIL REFINERIES • DUE TO ROUGH CONDITIONS IN CUBA, A COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT TOOK HOLD OF MIAMI FOREIGN POLICY: BAY OF PIGS • BEGAN WITH EISENHOWER AND THEN KENNEDY APPROVED THE MISSION 9 DAYS INTO HIS PRESIDENCY • APRIL 17TH, 1961 • AIR STRIKE FAILS, EXILES FAIL TO MAKE IT TO SHORE- AMERICANS KILLED OR IMPRISONED • MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT FOR KENNEDY AS CASTRO CLAIMS WESTERN DEFEAT FOREIGN POLICY: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS • AMERICA FOUND OUT THAT THE SOVIETS WERE BUILDING ILLEGAL MISSILE SITES IN CUBA • FOUR OPTIONS: • DO NOTHING AND ATTEMPT NEGOTIATIONS • BLOCKADE CUBA TO PREVENT FUTURE SUPPLIES FROM ENTERING CUBA • BOMB MISSILE SITES • AMPHIBIOUS INVASION OF CUBA FOREIGN POLICY: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS • WE CHOOSE: BLOCKADE OF CUBA • 13 DAYS AMERICA SAT ON THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR • WE HAD 100,000 TROOPS WAITING IN FLORIDA (THE LARGEST INVASION FORCE EVER ASSEMBLED) • KHRUSCHEV AGREED TO REMOVE THE MISSILES IN EXCHANGE FOR THE U.S. PROMISING NOT TO INVADE • “FOR A MOMENT, THE WORLD STOOD STILL”- ROBERT KENNEDY FOREIGN POLICY: BERLIN CRISIS • 3 MILLION EAST GERMANS HAD FLED INTO WESTERN BERLIN IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE BERLIN AIRLIFT • KHRUSCHEV WANTED TO BLOCK OFF WESTERN BERLIN TO PROTECT THE EAST GERMAN ECONOMY • AUGUST 13TH, 1961: CONSTRUCTION ON THE WALL BEGAN WHICH WOULD SEPARATE EAST AND WEST BERLIN • SYMBOL OF THE COLD WAR DIVIDE FOREIGN POLICY: THE HOT LINE • 1963: DIRECT LINE BETWEEN WHITE HOUSE AND KREMLIN • MEANT TO PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR FOREIGN POLICY: THE LIMITED TEST BAN TREATY • BANNED TESTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE AIR • WANTED TO PREVENT ENVIRONMENT DAMAGE DOMESTIC POLICY • NEW FRONTIER: NAME FOR KENNEDY’S DOMESTIC POLICY • STIMULATING THE ECONOMY: • PUSHED DEFICIT SPENDING • INCREASED MINIMUM WAGE, CUT TAXES • RAISED DEFENSE BUDGET BY 20% DOMESTIC POLICY: POVERTY • ABROAD: • PEACE CORPS: • • • VOLUNTEER ASSISTANCE TO THE DEVELOPING NATIONS OF ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA • • OFFERED ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES HUGE SUCCESS 1968: 35,000 VOLUNTEERS HAD SERVED IN 60 NATIONS • ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS: NOT A SUCCESS- RESENTED BY LATIN AMERICANS DUE TO OUR HISTORY WITH THEM DOMESTIC POLICY: POVERTY • AT HOME: • MICHAEL HARRINTON’S BOOK THE OTHER AMERICA BROUGHT THE TOPIC OF POVERTY TO THE FOREFRONT • PROFILED 50 MILLION AMERICANS WHO STRUGGLED WITH LESS THAN $1,000/YEAR • PRESENTED A BILL TO CONGRESS THAT WOULD GET PASSED THROUGH UNDER JOHNSON • KENNEDY TRIED TO PUSH THROUGH CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION DOMESTIC POLICY: RACE TO THE MOON • SOVIET YURI GARIGAN BECAME THE FIRST PERSON IN SPACE • KENNEDY SAW THIS AS A CHALLENGE, WANTED TO SURPASS THEM • INVESTED MILLIONS INTO NASA • APOLLO 11 BECOMES THE U.S. SPACE MISSION TO LAND ON THE MOON • THE EAGLE WAS THE CRAFT THAT ACTUALLY LANDED ON THE MOON- NEIL ARMSTRONG, FIRST PERSON TO WALK ON THE MOON ASSASSINATION • NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963 KENNEDY IS SHOT IN DALLAS, TEXAS • GOVERNOR CONNALLY WAS ALSO SHOT • LEE HARVEY OSWALD WAS ARRESTED FOR THE SHOOTING- HE WAS THEN KILLED BY JACK RUBY • WARREN COMMISSION WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF THE INVESTIGATION INTO HIS DEATH- CONCLUDED OSWALD ACTED ALONE, HOWEVER IN 1979, A REINVESTIGATION ALLEGED HE WAS A PART OF A LARGER CONSPIRACY.