Working on my assigned blog about John F. Kennedy!
Peace Corps
-One of his first presidential acts
-Asked Congress to create the Peace Corps
-Americans volunteer to help underdeveloped nations in specific areas:
(education, farming, health care and construction)
-He challenged students from University of Michigan to live and work in developing countries (October 14th)
-1,000 signed petition to serve aboard
-Speech to students inspired the Peace Corps
-November 2nd, 1960 he proposed the Peace Corps
Man on Moon
-May 25th, 1961 he told of his goal to send an American safely to the moon in the next 10 years
-Pressured by Soviet Union to catch up in the “space race”
-Obviously didn’t get to see it through
Cuban Missile Crisis
-CIA took pictures of missiles being made in Cuba by the Soviets
-Kennedy was then shown pictures
-Thought of it as a nuclear threat
-Kennedy knew if we attacked, might lead to a nuclear war with USSR
-If didn’t attack there would still be a threat from those weapons
-Thanks to President John F. Kennedy, war was avoided
-Kennedy organized the EX-COMM which was a group of 12 of his best advisors
-Kennedy decided to impose a naval quarantine
-He worked together with Khrushchev
Latin America / Communism
-Wanted to contain communism in Latin America
-Established the Alliance for Progress
-^ sent aid to troubled countries; tried to get greater human rights
-Asked for any planning of assassinating Castro needs to be denied by U.S.
-Increased minimum wage ($1.25 an hour)
-Better Social Security benefits
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