U2 Incident• America is secretly flying operative missions over

Russia• U2 servalliance plan is shot down• US military denies at first…and then they have to

admit it happened• Makes US look bad in two ways:

1. Russia’s military got took out a secret plane2. We lie about it and THEN tell the truth

U-2 Incident

Kruschev looking at wreckage of U2

Castro Comes to Power• In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator

Fulgencio Batista.• Castro was a communist and made alliance with USSR.• The CIA began to monitor Cuba for fear of a Soviet

attack.• Castro took over all US businesses in Cuba…US

stopped buying their sugar• We become enemies• Now we have Communist enemy in Cuba only 90 miles

south of Florida.

Bay of Pigs Crisis• a group of Cuban exiles named La Brigada,

invaded Cuba and tried to overthrow Castro.• La Brigada was armed by the US military• Within two days most of the 1,400 men were

killed or captured.• This was a bad mission with a bad plan…• JFK’s biggest failure…• Now Castro hates us…• This sucks…

Cuban Missile Crisis• Due to the Bay of Pigs, the relationship between the U.S.

and Cuba was terrible.• Castro had a very good relationship with the USSR.• During the summer of 1962, a spy plane took pictures of

nuclear missiles on Cuba.• These missiles were put there by the USSR.• JFK orders a complete military blockage

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• For about 13 days tensions were very high and nuclear war was near.

• An agreement was worked out between the U.S. and USSR:

• The U.S. was not to invade Cuba and remove nuclear missiles from Turkey.

• The USSR agreed to remove all nuclear missiles from Cuba.

• This Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest our country has ever been to nuclear war.

Missiles were capable of reaching basically any part of the US

The Death of JFK• On November 22 1963, JFK was in Dallas

Texas working on his re-election.• He was riding in a convertible with his wife

and the governor of Texas.• Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly shot JFK from

the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building.

• A few days later, a Chicago night club owner named Jack Ruby shot Oswald.

Lyndon Johnson• On board Air Force One, Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) took the

oath of office.• He was 55 years old when he became President.• His wife was Claudia Taylor. Her nickname was Lady Bird.• The election of 1964 was LBJ (D) vs. Barry Goldwater (R).• LBJ would win the election and quickly went to work on his

plans for America.

The Great Society• This plan by LBJ made many improvements in America:• Two main goals:

– 1) Put an end to poverty– 2) Put an end to racism

–Programs Created1. Civil Rights Act of 1964- Barred

discrimination in many ways (no segregation of public facilities, no job based discrimination, etc)

2. Medicare and Medicaid- Helped the elderly with health care cost.3. Head Start- Helped preschoolers who did not know how to color, etc.4. Robert Weaver- First black cabinet member.