KENNEDY
PRERANA RAMADURGUM
ELECTION (1960)
DEMOCRATIC
- Running mate was Lyndon B. Johnson
- Almost 50% popular vote
- Very close election
- New Frontier (JFK's campaign)
- Focused on education, health, and rights
COLD WAR
- Civil War in Laos
- Increased spending on military
- Increase in military advisers
- Marshall Plan in Latin America
- Bay of Pigs incident pushes Cuba fully into communism
- 1962 Cuba Quarantined
- Khrushchev pulls out of Cuba so quarantine would end
- Berlin Wall constructed by USSR
CIVIL RIGHTS
- Promised to end racial discrimination
- Focused on education and medical bills
- Freedom Riders (end to segregation)
- James Meredith had troops escort him to enroll at Ole Miss
- 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham
- Kennedy televised speech about discrimination
- Martin Luther King Junior "I Have a Dream"
- MLK assassinated in Dallas '63 from balcony