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The New Frontier
Kennedy proposed a speech to give in front of the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to get America to support him -
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Kennedy's programs to help the US move in the right direction
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Bay of Pigs invasion
1400 Cuban exiles were launched to invade what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba -
First man to go into space
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr was the first man launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 Space Capsule. The flight lasted 15 minutes and went about 116 miles in the air. -
Soviets build the Berlin Wall
August 15th 1961- East German authorities built a wall between West and East Berlin so that people couldn’t escape and go to the western side for freedom. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a heated, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. This disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to the Soviets offer of the removal of the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. -
Death of President Kennedy
The car turned off Main Street, in Dallas at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly went off in the plaza. Bullets hit the president's neck and head and he slumped over toward his wife, Mrs. Kennedy. He was rushed to the hospital but nothing could be done to save him. Later on the press finds out that Lee Harvey Oswald was the one to kill the president. -
Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 was central to Johnson's Great Society campaign and its War on Poverty. authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty. These agencies are directly regulated by the federal government. -
Medicare was created
The Medicare program, provided hospital and medical insurance for Americans 65 or older, was signed into law as an amendment to the Social Security Act of 1935. -
Medicaid was created
The Medicaid program, provided hospital and medical insurance for poor Americans that could not afford to pay for it themselves, was signed into law as an amendment to the Social Security Act of 1935. -
Miranda Rights come about
The Supreme Court passes an act that anyone that gets in legal trouble has to be told their rights. “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you”.
