Summary - 2Q American Dream: Reality or Illusion (7042)
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2Q American Dream: Reality or Illusion (7042)
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These are two documents of my revision notes for Eisenhower and JFK for AQA A Level History American Dream 2Q.
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1917- BORN TO A ROMAN CATHOLIC IRISH AMERICAN FAMILY THAT WAS POLITICALLY AMBITIOUS AND
WEALTHY. JFK’S FATHER DOMINATED POLITICS AND GRANDFATHER WAS THE MAYOR OF BOSTON
1927- MOVED TO NYC AND HIS FATHER’S FINANCIAL SUCCESS MOUNTED THROUGH ILLEGAL AND ILLEGAL
MEANS. SELLING BLACK MARKET DURING PROHIBITION. MOVED TO THE MOST EXCLUSIVE AND WEALTHY
AREAS.
1930- WAS BROUGHT UP IN ELITE BOARDING SCHOOLS. HE HAD A LONG PERIOD OF ILL HEALTH WITH
INTESTINE AND KIDNEY DISEASES.
1935- ENROLLED TO STUDY AT LSE BUT HIS HEALTH FORCED HIS RETURN TO THE USA. BUT HE DID GET
ACCEPTED INTO HARVARD TO STUDY POLITICAL AFFAIRS. A PRIVELGED EDUCATION
1938- HIS FATHER JOSEPH KENNEDY WAS APPOINTED US AMBASSADOR TO THE UK AND THEY LIVED THERE
UNTIL THE 1940. HE TRAVELLED TO SOVIET UNION, THE MIDDLE EAST FOR HIS STUDIED AND AMAGED TO
BREAK OUT JUST AFTER THE OUTBREAK OF WAR.
1940- GRADUATED FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY WITH A BA IN GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
HE WROTE A BESTSELLING BOOK ABOUT THE DANGERS OF THE POLICY APPEASEMENT AND BRITAIN'S ROLE IN
MUNICH CONFERENCE. HE WAS IMPLYUING THAT YOU CANT JUST BLAME HITLER FOR WW2.
1941- EXCERISED TO MAKE HIMSELF HEALTHY AND USED HIS FATHERS MONEY AND CONNECTIONS AS WAS
FINALLY ACCEPTED INTO THE OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE AFTER FAILING TO IN 1940.
1943- DECORATED FO THE LIFE-SAVING DURING HIS NAVAL SERVICE IN THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN. THEIR BOAT
SUNK AND MANAGED TO SAVE SEVERAL PEOPLE, WHICH MEANT HE WANTED TO SWIM FROM ISLAND TO
ISLAND BEFORE GETTING FRIENDLY NATIVE PERON TO CARY A MESSAGE THAT EHY ARE SAFE
1944- HIS OLDER BROTHER JOE WAS KILLED IN AN AIRPLANE CRASH AND JFK’S FATHER NOW PUT HIS
POLITICAL AMBTIONS IN JFK.
1947- ELECTED TO THE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATVIES AS A CONGRESSMAN FOR MASSACHUSETTS. SERVED
FOR 3 TERMS UNTIL 1953, ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT A PARTICULARLY DISTINGUISJED RECORD, HE WAS MOST
KNOWN FOR HIS VOCAL OPPOSITION TO TRUMAN OVER THE LOSS OF CHINA TO COMMUNISM.
1953- MARRIED JOURNALIST JACKIE BOUVIER. DESPITE HIS BROTHER BOBBY SERVING AS A MCCARTHEY AIDE
AND BEING A FAMILY FRIEND OF HIS, JFK REMAINED DETACHED FROM MCATEHY AND HIS SUPPORTERS.
1954- ELECTED AS OEN OF THE TWO SENATORS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS
1956- PUBLISHED ANOTHER BOOK ‘PROFILES IN COURAGE’
1957- DAUGHTER CAROLINE WAS BORN AND HE WAS SEEN AS ONE OF THE COMPROMISING POLITICIANS
WHO HELPED WATER DOWN THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF THAT YEAR.
1958- RE-ELECTED AS SENATE BY A HUGE MAJORITY
1960- WAS ELECTED 35TH PRESEIDENT OF THE US BUT ONLY NARROWLY DEFEATED THE REPUBLICAN VP NIXON
1960 ELECTION
Red- Richard Nixon
Blue- JFK
CHARACTER
, - EISEHNOWER, WHO WORKED WITH NIXON FOR 8 YEARS CANT FIND ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT
HIM- ‘GIVE ME A WEEK AND I MIGHT FIND SOMETHING’- WHEN ASKED TO NAME SOMETHING GOOD
ABOUT HIM
- DID HAVE THE VICTROY OF JFK CAN BE EXPLAINED CAN BE EXPLAIMED AS NIXON DIDN’T HAVE GOOD
HEALTH, IRONIC AS JFK IS UNHEALTHY.
- NIXON WORE A LIGHT SUIT SO HE COULDN’T BE SEEN IN THE BY THE LIGHT BACKGROUND, ON A GRAY
SECREEN. JFK WORE A DARK SIUT SO ONLY HIS FIGURE COULD BE SEEN
- CAME FROM A NON-PRIVELGED BACKGROUND
- HAS AN ANTI-COMMUNIST REPUTATION
- HIS DAD WAS CORRUPT BUT BEINGS VOTES FOR HIM AND USED HIS MONEY TO DO SO
- NIXON HAD NO RAPPORT WITH JOURNALISTS BUT JK DID.
- HIS CATHOLICIMS AND IRISH BACKGROUND DID NARROW HIS VICTORY DUE TO RELUCTANCE OF
PROTESTANTS BUT JK SAID RELIGION NEVER MATTERED
- SELLS HIS LOOKS WHICH IS WHAT AMERICA WANTED
- PEOPLE WANT A HEALTHY AND YOUNG PRESIDENT
CAMPAIGN
- KEENDY ENGAGES WITH THE TV BUT NOXON LOOKS TO THE SIDE- SGNS OF HDING THE TRUTH.
- DIDN’T CAMPIAN WITH EISENHWOER UNTIL 19600 WHICH IRRITATE DE AS DE WAS A POPULAR
PRESDEINT WHO WOULD’VE GIVEN HIM GOOD ADVICE
- REJECTED DE’S ADVICE OVER TV DEBATE WITH JFK- 1 ST ONE
- FAILS TO ATTRACT EISNEHWOER SUPPORT- EISENHWOER POSSIBLY DOESN’T THINK NIXON IS GOOD
FOR THE JOB.
- DOESN’T RESPOND TO AA RIGHTS EVENT, WHICH WAS MARTIN LUTEHR KINGS ARREST. JFK
PERSONALLY CALLED MRS KING WHICH SHOWS THAT HE CARES, SUGGESTING TO AFRICAN
AMERICANS THAT HE IS THE
- CHOSE HENRY CABOT LODGE AS HIS RUNNING MATE- SOUTHERN VOTES LOST BY PROMISING A BLACK
CABINET MEMBER
- HCL WAS FROM MASSACHUSEATS, SO WAS JFK, SO THEY COULDN’T WIN THAT.
- YOUNG JFK AND OLD JOHNSON SP THEY CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER- A BALANCED TICKET- OLD
YOUNG, NORTH SOUTH
- CREDITS THE TV DEBATES TO BE THE REASON FOR HIS VICTORY
MAIFESTO
- USES EISNHWOERS OLD POLICIES WHICH DID BRING ABOUT A RECESSION AND WASN’T OFFERING
ANYTHING NEW
- JFK OFFERED THE NEW FRONTIER IN HIS PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION SPEECH.
- PROMISED TO DEVELOP SPACE TECHNOLOGY, SO GET AHEAD IN THE COLD WAR
- NEED FOR EDUCATION- W/C AND AA VOTE WON
- TARGETED YOUNG PEOPLE AND WOMEN, WHO WOULD’VE VOTED AS HE WAS GOOD LOOKING.
THE ‘BEST AND BRIGHTEST’
PERSONALITY POSITION ROLE AND CONTRIBUTION IN
KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE
LYNDON JOHNSON VICE PRESIDENT GETTING JFK ELECTED THROUGHA
BALANCED TICKET
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