The Baby Boomers Hit Puberty: The Cold War, Vietnam, and Liberal

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The Baby Boomers Hit Puberty The Cold War,
Vietnam, and Liberal Merica during the 1960s

• Honors U.S. History

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What is a Liberal?

• 20th century Liberal One who typically supports
  government programs meant to fix social issues
• Civil Rights Movement
• Peace Corps
• American volunteers working as teachers and
  health workers (among other positions) in
  underdeveloped countries
• U.S. Agency for International Development/Alliance
  for Progress
• Giving aid to struggling countries, mostly in
  Latin America

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John F. Kennedy Sexiest President Since Taft

• Defeated VP Richard Nixon in first major election
  of the TV era
• The New Frontier Kennedys election symbolized
  change

Kennedy/Nixon Debate
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Q Buh

• 90 miles from the coast of Florida
• 1959 Fidel Castro overthrows government,
  shortly thereafter installs Communism
• 1961 JFK oks plan to overthrow Castro,
  ultimately fails
• Situation named Bay of Pigs after the area
  where landing was supposed to happen

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Q Bun Missile Crisis

• 1962 Soviet nuclear missiles discovered in Cuba
• JFK insists Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev take
  them back
• Tense standoff between the two
• USSR eventually takes missiles down as long as US
  takes down their missiles in Turkey

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US/Soviet Relations

• 1962 - Kennedy promises to land a man on the moon
• Attempts to ease tension signed in 1963
• Partial Test Ban Treaty Outlaws underground
  nuclear testing
• November 22, 1963 Kennedy assassinated in
  Dallas, Texas
• Communists suspected but assassin is American
• Lee Harvey Oswald

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Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society

• Continuation of New Deal/Liberal plans
• Medicare/Medicaid
• Welfare
• Public Housing
• Office of Economic Opportunities
• Immigration Act (1965)

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Earl Warren and the Supreme Court

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