HIST 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: The Other America, Fidel Castro, Cuban Missile Crisis
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Despite the consensus remaining jfk believed that all americans were all apart of a. Pick up from previous class friday november 4, 2016. Reminder that essay assignment two is due by 4:00 on friday november 11, 2016 robust wwii economy. Kennedy committed to being anti-soviet/anti-communist and embracing the containment doctrine. The presidential election in 1960 was between kennedy (democrats) and nixon (republicans). Nixon was the vp for eisenhower for the past eight years. In 1950 about 11% of americans had tvs in their homes. So thus, a format that would reach the homes of a vast majority of. Entering the four debates, nixon had a slight lead over kennedy in the polls. Involving the economy, when jfk was first sworn into office the economy was going through a brief recession, so in order to stimulate that form of economy (acting more like a republican) kennedy introduced two significant tax cuts.
