Name ______

Chap. 15Booknotes

The New Frontier and the Great Society – 1960 – 1968

Section 1: The New Frontier

Election of 1960:

Republican Candidate ______

Democratic Candidate ______

During the 1960 presidential race, both parties made substantial use of ______.

Democrats spent ______

Republicans spent______

Define the following:

“Cold Warriors” –

Missile Gap –

Religion became a huge issue- Kennedy attacked the issue head onJFK stated, “I believe in an America where the separation of the church and state is absolute… where no Catholic prelate would tell the president, should he be a Catholic, how to act.”

Televised debates strongly influenced the outcome of the election, one of the closes in American history: JFK wins popular vote by ______, & Electoral College______with several states a few thousand votes that could have swung the Electoral College the other direction.

Inaugural Address: January 20, 1961 - “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you- ______.”

Kennedy Takes Office:

New Frontier –

1.

2.

3.

Why did he have problems passing his legislation?

Successes and Setbacks

JFK’s Congressional Successes

______– FDR’s creation to ______

1.______

2.______

3.______

4.______

Some steel companies refused to follow, what was Kennedy’s response

JFK’s Congressional Failures:

1.______

2.______

3.______

4.______

Expanding Women’s Rights:

Define the following:

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women –

Esther Peterson –

A New Focus on the Disabled

Define or complete:

Kennedy’s Panel on Mental Retardation –

Congressional Response

1.

2.

What did they do?

Camp Shriver –

Result:

Warren Court Reforms

Who was Earl Warren?

Under his leadership the Supreme Court issued ______

“One Person, One Vote”

Define or complete the following:

Reapportionment –

Baker v. Carr (1962) –

Reynolds v. Sims (1964)–

Extending Due Process

Define or complete the following:

Due Process –

Mapp v. Ohio (1961) –

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) –

Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) –

Miranda v. Arizona (1966) –

Prayer and Privacy

Define or complete the following:

Engel v. Vitale (1962) –

Abington School District v. Schempp (1963) –

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) –

Section 2: JFK and the Cold War

Containing Communism

Kennedy used a range of programs:

1.

2.

3.

A More Flexible Response

Define or complete the following:

Flexible Response –

ICBM’s –

Result:

Aid to Other Countries

Define or complete the following:

Where did Kennedy want to improve diplomatic relations?

Alliance for Progress –

1.

2.

Results:

1.

2.

The Peace Corps –

The Cold War in Space

Define or complete the following:

Yuri Gagarin- ______

Sparks the Space Race- USA Commits to ______

John Glenn- 1st American to ______

July 16, 1969: Saturn V & Apollo -______

July 20, 1969: “Houston, ______”

Armstrong- 238,000 miles from Earth, 1st human to step foot on the moon

Kodiak Quote(not in text book):

New Technology, Inventions & Innovations

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Crises of the Cold War

President Kennedy’s efforts to combat Communist influence in other countries led to some of the most

______.

The Bay of Pigs

Define or complete the following:

Cuba –

Fidel Castro –

La Brigada –

April 17th, 1961 –

Results:

The Berlin Wall Goes Up

Define or complete the following:

Nikita Khrushchev –

Demands –

Results –

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Define or complete the following:

October 22- ______USSR missiles in Cuba

Naval Quarantine -

Kennedy Demands:

1.

2.

Secret Negotiations –

Impact: Both countries worked to lesson world tensions

August 1963- ______

October 1964- ______

Arms Race Build-up begins, America Responds in 1980’s similarly

Death of a President

Define or complete the following:

Nov. 22 1963 –

Lee Harvey Oswald –

Jack Ruby –

Warren Commission –

1000 Days –

LBJ –

Section 3: The Great Society

Johnson Takes the Reins

Asks nation to build on Kennedy’s ______.

The Other America by Michael Harrington –

Impact on Johnson -

Johnson’s Leadership Style

Define or complete the following:

Consenus -

Why was Johnson concerned about the poor?

1.

2.

3.

A War on Poverty

Define or complete the following:

“declares unconditional war on poverty” –

Economic Opportunity Act –

Neighborhood Youth Corps –

Job Corps –

VISTA –

Upward Bound –

Work Experience Program –

The Election of 1964

Republican Candidate Senator Barry Goldwater –

Message –

Result of Election:

  1. Popular Vote –
  2. Electoral College –

The Great Society

Define or complete the following:

Great Society –

Goals –

1.

2.

Medicare –

Medicaid –

Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 –

Project Head Start –

Department of Housing and Urban Development –

Subsidies –

Immigration Act of 1965 –

The Great Society’s Legacy

The Great Society programs touched nearly every aspect of American ______and

______.

Describe the impact:

Limitations –

Cities, States & other Groups –

Massive growth of the Federal Government –

Vietnam –

Benefits –

Unintended consequences –

Medicare –

Baby Boomers –

Entitilement –

Critics of Great Society

1.

2.

3.