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Chris Cockerell
ED 448
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
The Kennedy and Johnson
Years
1960-1968
OBJECTIVES
Describe the election of 1960 and its
outcome.
 Summarize Kennedy’s domestic
program
 Explain American’s reaction to President
Kennedy’s assassination

KEY TERMS
Mandate
 New Frontier
 Warren Commission

Election of 1960
Kennedy vs. Nixon
 Debates
 Economy
 Margin of Victory
 His Administration

NEW FRONTIER
PRICE FIXING
 TAX CUT
 POVERTY
 MINIMUM WAGE
 HOUSING ACT

SPACE PROGRAM
Sputnik Launch
 Vostok
 Man on the Moon

Kennedy is Assassinated
Lee Harvey Oswald
 Warren Commission
 Lyndon Johnson

What were some of the successes
and failures of Kennedy’s domestic
policies while in?
The New President
Great Society
 Election of 1964
 Congress

LBJ’s Policies
Tax Cut
 War on Poverty
 VISTA
 Education Aid
 Medicare and Medicaid
 Immigration Act of 1965

Earl Warren
Chief Justice
 New legal Precedents
 Criminal Procedure
 Congressional Reapportionment


Summarize the goals of Johnson’s Great
Society
Foreign Policy in the Early
1960’s
What was the United States’ Role in the
Bay of Pigs Invasion
 Analyze the events leading to the
building of the Berlin Wall and the
Cuban Missile Crisis

What were the goals of Kennedy’s
Alliance for Progress and the Peace
Corps
 Summarize Johnson’s foreign policy

Bay of Pigs Invasion
 Berlin Crisis
 Cuban Missile Crisis
 “hot line”
 Limited Test Ban Treaty

 Alliance
for Progress
 Peace Corps
Johnson’s Foreign Policy
 The
Dominican Republic
 Vietnam
What were some of the major problems
the United States had to deal with
involving foreign policy in the early
1960’s?
 What were some of the peaceful
programs designed to help with foreign
affairs?

THE END