Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society
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- New Frontier and Great Society
- Great Society
- Civil Rights Laws
- The Fair Housing Act 1968
- Prohibited discrimination in the sale or renting of housing after MLK was assassinated
- Civil Rights Act 1964
- Ensured the legal segregation was ended in the south
- Voting Rights Act
- Ensured all black Americans could vote
- The Fair Housing Act 1968
- Poverty and Unemploymeent
- 44 states had anti-poverty programmes, 53 Job Corps centres created, 25,000 families on welfare received job training
- Economic Opportunity Act 1964
- War on poverty
- Education
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Helped children below the poverty line
- Higher Education Act
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Housing and Urban Problems
- Housing and Urban Development Department 1965
- To combat house shortages and decay
- Omnibus Housing Act 1965
- Financed rent supplements and $8b worth of low/moderate income housing in ghettos
- Housing and Urban Development Department 1965
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Medicare 1965
- Federal funding medical care for over 65s regardless of incomes.
- Medicaid 1965
- Federal government provided funding for states to provide medical care for those who could not afford basic services
- Medicare 1965
- Civil Rights Laws
- New Frontier
- Cold War
- Cuba
- JFK executed the plan Eisenhower initiated.
- JFK was seen to have won the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Vietnam
- He escalated involvement
- 20,000 men in active combat compared to 1000 under Eisenhower
- Space Race
- Aim for the Man on the Moon
- By 1965, 58% of Americans were in favour of the moon landing and by 1969 the USA landed a man on the moon
- Aim for the Man on the Moon
- Cuba
- Peace Corps 1961
- Aimed to help improverished countries
- JFK claimed it would fulfill its promise of world devlopment and peace
- Alternativtly, it was to counter Soviet propganda of the US
- Social Welfare & Unemployment
- Legislative failures
- No congressional support
- For initatives like OAP healthcare, Tax cuts, Civil rights bill to end Jim Crow laws
- Extensions of existing programmes
- No congressional support
- Unemployed, underemployed and unskilled workers
- Area Redevelopment Act 1961
- Extended employment opportunities
- Manpower Devlopment Training Act 1962
- Retrained workers who had lost their job due to mechanisation
- Area Redevelopment Act 1961
- Helping the poor
- Social Security Act 1961
- Social security to the elderly
- Minimum Wage Act
- Food and Agriculture Act 1962
- Federal subsidies to farmers
- Omnibus Housing Act 1961
- Granted 5b to extent programmes of urban renewal and public housing
- Food Stamp Programme
- Fed 240,000 people
- Social Security Act 1961
- Legislative failures
- Cold War
- Great Society
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