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JFK Lecture Guide

 

 

Domestic Policies: The New Frontier

Stimulating the Economy

• estimated that ______ million Americans were ________ stricken

• responded by _________________________ and increasing ______________________

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Peace Corps

• created a ______________ program for Americans to help poverty stricken nations throughout the _____________.

 

Technology

• to compete with _____________ space superiority Kennedy _____________ government _________________ and promised America a ______________________ within ____ years (happened in _________)

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Civil Rights

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• created a Civil Rights bill that guaranteed ____________________________________

________________________ and gave the U.S. Attorney General (_________________) the power to file _____________________________.

• Kennedy died before approved, but later became the ____________________________ (one of the __________________________________________ in American history).

 

 

Foreign Policies: Berlin & Cuba

Berlin Crisis (1961)

• Germans living in East Berlin were moving West

• angered the Soviets because it made communism look bad

• Kennedy refused to compromise with Soviet demands, and the Soviets ______________

_____________________ - ended the crisis, but ________________ Cold War __________.

 

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

• USSR placed nuclear missiles on the island of ____________

• nearly led to _______________ between the U.S. and U.S.S.R – Kennedy able to _______________________ convince _____________________________________.

 

Hot Line (1963)