U.S. History Name: Guided Notes Chapter 15 (part 1)

The New Frontier and the Great Society, 1961-1968 | Lesson 1: The New Frontier

Fun Facts! – Presidential Election of 1960

• Kennedy carried the election with 303 electoral votes to Nixon’s 219 • Kennedy won only 22 states while Nixon won 28 • Kennedy won by a margin of less than 0.2% of the popular vote (34,220,984 to Nixon’s 34,108,157)

What event was televised for the first time during this election?

Use the following chart to compare Kennedy to Nixon in the 1960 election

John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon

Kennedy’s Initiatives

Directions: Put a check or ‘x’ in the column to mark whether the initiative was a success or a failure. Initiative Success Failure

Defense funding

Equal Pay Act (affirmed women’s right to equal pay for equal work)

Funding for space exploration

Tax cuts

Healthcare for seniors

Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act

Reduced wage increases from labor unions

Lower prices from steel companies

Funding for education

Area Redevelopment Act and Housing Act

Warren Court Reforms How important are some of the Warren Court rulings for today’s society?

Directions – Put a check or an ‘x’ in the column to mark the subject each case relates to. Also include a short description.

Supreme Court Case Due Process Civil Rights Freedom of Speech and Religion

Baker v. Carr (1962)

Reynolds v. Sims (1964)

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Engle v. Vitale (1962)

Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

The New Frontier and the Great Society, 1961-1968 | Lesson 2: JFK and the Cold War

During his term as president, Kennedy continued to enforce what policy towards communism?

Unlike Eisenhower, Kennedy preferred not to rely on a nuclear arsenal and advocated this instead?

What did the Alliance for Progress do?

Why was the alliance sometimes unsuccessful?

Kennedy also established the Peace Corps, an organization that did what?

U.S. History Name: Guided Notes Chapter 15 (part 2)

The Space Race!

Year Event

1947

1949

1951

1957

1961

1962

1965

1969

Three Cold War Crises under Kennedy

Cause Event Effect

United States facilitates invasion of Bay of Pigs.

Khrushchev orders construction of

Berlin Wall.

United States and Soviet Union enter standoff over Cuban missile crisis.

Kennedy’s Assassination

November 22, ___________: While traveling in a motorcade with his wife in ____________, Texas, Kennedy was shot

____________ in the ____________. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a nearby hospital. ____________

_________________ _________________, the gunman, was arrested and believed to have assassinated Kennedy for

_____________________ reasons. ___________________ was killed two days later by ___________ ____________.

The ________________ _____________________ was the investigation into the assassination and concluded that

_________________ acted alone.

And so Vice-President Johnson becomes President…

What experience did Johnson have in politics?

How was this experience going to help with his potential legislation?

What did The Other America have to say about Americans?

The Great Society

Health and Welfare

Education

The War of Poverty

Consumer and Environmental Protection

Civil Rights and Immigration