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| military industrial complex |
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Eisenhower's phrase in his farewell address b/c too many people were getting wages from war industries
very Jeffersonian speech and very relevant; would have been powerful if it wasn't ignored for the flashy TV JFK |
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| John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address |
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| idealism or arrogance? - reflects his time. optimistic, electrifying but ethnocentric - talking like a parent to the world yet the US does not have that authority - projecting our values on the huts and villages - does not talk about domestic policy |
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| "huts and villages" (JFK's Inaugural) |
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| talking about the third world (non-Europe) - Latin America, Africa, Asia |
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| "New Frontier" (JFK's Inaugural) |
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| Asia, Africa, Latin America |
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| famous line from JFK's inaugural |
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| "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" |
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| a young prince became president and he had a plan for America but he was tragically shot and with his death died the plan and America never smiled again |
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| America's domestic problems during the Kennedy years |
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| racism, labor unions, woman's rights, bubble world, poverty |
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| The optimism of the American Century _____ our domestic problems and _____ our ability to shape the world |
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underestimated
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| The belief in the American Century will die in... |
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he represented something new, youthful, change
- in reality he was a man of his time |
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| Kennedy's proposals for reform... |
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| ... were stalled by white southern Democrats in Congress. They failed because he did not fight for them. |
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| Most of the money spent domestically under Kennedy was put into... |
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| ... NASA (space) program which was really a race with the Russian to put a man on the moon. Was popular with everyone. |
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| civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia |
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| first black man to apply to University of Mississippi - endangered his life put but pressure on JFK and JFK supported him |
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| "I Have A Dream" Speech + JFK |
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| JFK was mistakenly associated with this speech, although his call to King while in jail helped him get the black vote to win the election. |
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| American altruism at its best - college grads volunteer talents in 3rd world. |
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| under JFK, economic aid program for Latin America |
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| JFK inherited this plan from IKE and continues to use CIA without telling the American people. This was a plan to kill Castro, the communist ruler of Cuba, but it failed. |
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headed by Robert Kennedy
use of CIA to try and assassinate Castro - arrogance |
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| closet the world has ever gotten to WWIII; Russia comes out the real hero. Kennedy "quarantines" Cuba, threatens to fire if Soviets come to close, Soviets were on their way but Khrushchev took the high road |
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| Vietnamese dictator whom the US supported just because he was anti-communist although he had little support in Vietnam among the people. He was overthrown by his generals, whom the US also supported, and they weren't popular either. |
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| November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald |
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| 4 reasons for Kennedy's popularity |
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1. Cuban Missile Crisis
2. Vietnam was "back page news"
3. Mistakenly connected with MLK
4. First "television president" |
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| JFK as the first "television president" |
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| image speaks louder than words - American people didn't care about policies they just wanted to watch the American royalty, aka the Kennedys. Americans came to feel that they knew him and his family personally. |
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| Americans loved Westerns and quiz shows - Jeffersonian, unknown man rises up. Yet it was found out that these shows were rigged and broke the faith of the people. TV cleaned up its act by stressing politics and their star was JFK. |
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| LBJ, 1963-1969, the true president of the 60s, initiated the biggest government effort towards social problems |
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| The Great Society Program |
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| biggest federal government program, LBJ, was dismantled in 1980s and never reached its goals |
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| "A great society is one in which..." |
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| "... its members are known for the quality of their goals rather than the quantity of their goods" - slogan of the Great Society Program |
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| federal government will sponsor programs to end poverty - the other war of the 60s, we lost both |
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The Other America
poverty is a cultural problem rather than an economic one - government intervention is needed not just money handouts |
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| Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) |
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| giving poor a hand up not hand out, need to change their lifestyle, breaking the cycle of poverty |
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| backs up 14th and 15th amendments and includes women |
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| ends poll tax, literacy tests |
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| companies get special preferences for hiring minorities and women - reverse discrimination to address injustices of American past |
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| "key to unlock the door of the Great Society" |
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| federal aid to both public and parochial schools |
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| made education fair and work for all - LBJ helps parochial unlike Kennedy who wouldn't touch them because they were Catholic |
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| Department of Housing and Urban Development led by James Weaver (African American) |
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| African American leader of HUD |
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| a domestic Peace Corps - recognition that America has problems that need to be dealt with |
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| rural poverty: aid to Appalachia |
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| JFK had campaigned and promised but never helped, and it had been ignored since the time of the populists. LBJ helped |
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Great Society, LBJ
for the elderly and their medical bills, had previously been ignored |
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| reverses Immigration Act of 1924 which restricted immigration |
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| National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
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| because worried that TV/consumerism was lowering American mind - run education and public interest TV programs with federal aid, think Sesame Street |
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| In totally the Great Society tried to ____ the Republic |
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| recharge, renew citizenship, last major effort in American history to do this |
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| Democratic Party picks better known JFK and convinces LBJ, our of loyalty to the part, to run as VP to "balance the ticket" (appeal to white southerners). LBJ really hated wanted to be president and politically he deserved it but he was snubbed. |
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| Why LBJ was able to achieve what JFK could not domestically: |
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1. he was a white southern, convinced conservative white southern congressmen to vote for civil rights and social reform
2. "the Johnson method"
3. Election of 1964 |
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| not nice - blackmailing white southern democrats who opposed the civil rights legislation by exposing their secrets. |
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| LBJ wins a landslide victory over the Republican Barry Goldwater largely due to popularity of JFK (public thought LBJ was similar) |
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| Why did the Great Society fail? |
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| The Vietnam Conflict. War sucks out all prosperity - Great Society will never happen again unless the people sacrifice. LBJ did not want to further tax the people yet America could not reform itself and win a war without the middle class sacrificing anything |
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1947-1975
-never a declared war, lengthy conflict
-LBJ inherits this all the way back to Truman (only becomes headlining news under LBJ)
-wanted to fight communism, let it get to our heads |
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| the first Vietnam Conflict |
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1947-1954
Ho Chi Minh (nationalistic communist who had people's favor) fights the French for Vietnamese independence after WWII (not directly involve US). Mihn asked Truman for help because American also began as a colonial people (rooting for the underdogs). We say no b/c he is communist. We aid France in fighting Mihn. |
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| US Support of France in Vietnam Conflict |
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| US pays 85% of the cost of war (no troops) - even though we basically pay for the war, they lose the biggest battle Dienbienphu |
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| Vietnamese victory against the French - the people really wanted to win! Ho was popular. |
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| The Geneva Accords (1954) |
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truce which ends the first Vietnam conflict
-France leaves Vietnam
-Vietnam is temporarily divided into two parts: North (Ho Chi Mihn) and Soug (pro French, eventually Diem) -- meant to be temporary
-Elections eventually to be held for the Vietnamese to vote on whether they want to be united and under who |
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| Since the US was stopping elections in Vietnam... |
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| in stopping the communist enemies, were were stopping democracy. If communism is what the people voted for democratically, that's what should be given |
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| communist nationalist, had lots of support in Vietnam - became our enemy because he was communist |
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| a strong anti-communist, but a dictator and bad leader - America supported him in the South although he failed to uphold his side of the bargain. Turned against him - coup |
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| south Vietnamese peasants who supported Ho Chi Minh |
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| Vietnam was a biproduct of ---- |
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| the Cold war. Cold War distorted our view of everything - supporting dictatorship in the name of anti-communist ended up suppressing democracy |
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| President Johnson's dilemma |
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| his popularity with the people was due to the mistake that he was just like Kennedy, he wasn't. Resolution: keep Vietnam semi secret in order to keep it off front page and focus attention on domestic affairs |
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| North Vietnamese ships are reported to have attacked two US ships in Gulf of Tonkin (the American public did not realize that these ships were attacked because they were actively assisting the South Vietnamese navy in attacks on North Vietnam) |
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