1960 election
-Ran against Vice President Richard Nixon
-first presidential televised debates took place- many say this helped JFK win the election
-very close election
Kennedys presidential accomplishments
-was president during most of the cold war
-bay of pigs invasion
-berlin wall built
-cuban missile crisis
-alliance for progress in latin america
-kennedy increased the number of helicopters, military advisers, and undeclared u.s special forces into vietnam
the new frontier
promised federal funding for:
1. education
2. medical care for the elderly
3. economic aid ro rural regions
4. government intervention to halt the recession
5. end racial discrimination
peace corps- people volunteering to help underdeveloped nations in areas such as education, farming, health care, and construction
equal pay act- signed in 1963, a federal law aimed at abolishing wage disarity based on sex
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