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    Kennedy's Foreign Policy: Bay of Pigs The US supplied money and arms to anti-Castro Cubans 15500 Anti-Castro troops land at the Bay of Pigs Terrible defeat1,200 troops captured. He launched invasion and it made him look not good in the beginning of his presidency Berlin Wall August 1961Russia sealed off east berlin / east Germany from west berlin and west berlin by erecting a wall 1500 troops sent to west berlin.

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    Kennedy's Foreign Policy: Bay of Pigs The US supplied money and arms to anti-Castro Cubans 15500 Anti-Castro troops land at the Bay of Pigs Terrible defeat1,200 troops captured. He launched invasion and it made him look not good in the beginning of his presidency Berlin Wall August 1961Russia sealed off east berlin / east Germany from west berlin and west berlin by erecting a wall 1500 troops sent to west berlin.

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    Crisis of Change
    Election of 1960

    GOP: Nominee: Richard M. Nixon, was VP under Ike


    Dem. Nominee: John F. Kennedy
    The two appeared on TV for the Great Debates
    Kennedy benefited from the debates, looked better on TV, via radio Nixon sounded better
    JFK won one of the closest elections in History

    New Freedom

    Housing Act of 1961- Provided $4.9 billion for urban renewal


    Minimum wage: Increased from $1 to $1.25 an hour
    24th amendment- outlawed the poll tax

    Kennedys Foreign Policy:


    Bay of Pigs

    The US supplied money and arms to anti-Castro Cubans


    15500 Anti-Castro troops land at the Bay of Pigs
    Terrible defeat- 1,200 troops captured
    JFK launched invasion and it made him look not good in the beginning of his presidency

    Berln Wall

    August 1961- Russia sealed off east berlin/east Germany from west Germany and west berlin by
    erecting a wall
    1500 troops sent to West Berlin- western powers would not give in Khrushchev backed down

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