HIST 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 28: Free Speech Movement, Peace Corps, Nikita Khrushchev
17 May 2016
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Chapter 28: the liberal consensus: flaming out 1960-1968. Youthful kennedy exhorted the country on inauguration day: john f. kennedy and the politics of expectation. New frontier to get america moving again: the new politics. Looks favored kennedy and made big impact on voters. Kennedy attracted catholics, blacks, and the labor vote. Vp candidate lyndon b. johnson brought in southern democrat votes: the kennedy administration. Bold leadership: the bay of pigs. Khrushchev said ussr was going to support fidel castro in cuba. Us plan to aid cuban exiles from nicaragua into cuba to defeat castro failed: peace corps, foreign aid, astronauts. Show third world that there was a better way than communism. Put money in hands of consumers to create more spending and ultimately higher tax revenues: the civil rights movement stirs. Congress wasn"t going to decide issue, it was going to bedetermined on streets of southern cities: freedom riders.
