The U.S by '63
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- Created on: 07-06-22 20:14
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- The U.S by 1963
- Position as a world power
- Relations with Khrush improved after Cuba
- signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty in '63 banning testing of nukes in space
- JFK attempted to rebuild relations with Latin America
- Peace Corps by Sargent Shriver
- Alliance for Progress promising $20 billion in aid
- White House tried to improve its image with programmes like 'Food for Peace'
- allowed countries to buy U.S crop in surplus in their own currency
- CIA
- Sept '60: removed Lumumba in Congo for his talk of pan- africanism
- May '61: removed Trujillo in Dominican Republic and Velasco in Ecuador
- the secrecy and dependence on covert operations eroded faith in the U.S
- Relations with Khrush improved after Cuba
- Economic Prosperity
- Kennedy inherited a 6.8% unemployment
- seemed to be anti- business due to a public dispute over steel prices
- proposed a cut in income tax from a range of 20-90% to 14-65%
- growth was seen by '63
- JFK was influenced by Galbraith's 'The Affluent Society'
- emphasised the poverty of a permanent American underclass (40-60mil Americans)
- Matusow's argument: tax cuts changed the future of economic policy but affected Medicare
- Social Change
- Women
- Presidential Commision on the Status of Women reports: women earn 55% of wages of men
- Friedan's 'Feminine Mystique'
- articulated the problem at the roots of women's lives
- Equal Pay Act was signed in June 1963
- Youth
- student activism was inspired by
- the Vietnam War
- the beat generation
- civil rights movement
- SDS was founded @ Uni of Michigan in 1960
- Port Huron Statement '62
- called students to improve American society
- produced by SDS, SNCC, CORE
- student activism was inspired by
- Women
- Position as a world power
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