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Explain JFK's popularity - worth 6 marks.



In 1960, when democratic president JFK was elected (by a very small margin) there was no doubt American prosperity would continue, however the USA faced other problems, urban decline (unemployment, rising crime rate) and civil rights issues (segregation) still rotted away creating a split society (white suburbia and the poverty ridden cities and southern states). Kennedy proposed to tackle these issues with his 鈥楴ew Frontier鈥? which aimed to destroy twentieth century evils such as deprecation, inequality and poverty by introducing far-reaching reforms to society. This not only made him popular with working class Americans, but with black citizens still facing discrimination and the hippy youth culture who campaigned for an end to poverty and segregation. He held talks with black rights leaders such as MLK, giving oppressed black Americans, who had fought for so many years, hope that change was on the way. Kennedy also wanted to pass the 鈥楳edical Help for the Aged Bill鈥? which would have been popular with all retired and somewhat forgotten senior citizens in America. For all his ambitious plans, Kennedy was largely unsuccessful at passing many of them through congress; he did however increase social security and raise the minimum wage. Kennedy also set up the Peace Corps to improve relations with foreign countries, another one of Americas growing issues. War concerned a lot of people in America, with both WW2 (1941-1945) and the Korean War (1950-53) still in living memory and increasing involvement with the Vietnamese troubles.



Kennedy presidency was the first to see press into the White House, and the heavy involvement from the press of his and his family鈥檚 lives quickly saw the Kennedy鈥檚 become icons of style; this increased their popularity, as politics had never before been glamorous or accessible in this way. His handling of the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962, won over a lot of critics, and his failed invasion of Cuba (bay of the pigs) was seemingly forgotten as they praised their cool headed leader for avoiding what is still to this day the closest to Nuclear War America and the USSR have been. Although historians and US citizens remain divided about Kennedys success and popularity, some being harsher than others, a lot of people see him as a symbol of youth, hope and change that never got to fulfil its potential. He was assassinated on the 22nd November 1963 in Dallas, leaving the nation in shock and grief, he remained only a figure of inspiration.



Is this all fair and historically accurate? Rekon it would get 6 marks?Is this Historical info correct ? (10Points)?
I think you mean "depreciation" instead of "deprecation" (though I might be wrong). If you mean it in terms of "looking down on others", it's OK - though I think not the best word.



Use a dash in "working-class"



Use "Black" instead of "black"



Use "Congress"



I don't *believe* that "Kennedy presidency was the first to see press into the White House". It is *probably* true that Kennedy was the first to allow *TV cameras* into the White House. I think reporters were invited there (at specified times, of course) by previous Presidents.



"Nuclear War" should not be capitalized.



Since I only know of Kennedy through history myself - and apparently I know less than you - I can only say that it seems mostly accurate to me.



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I'm impressed-after you ask the question last week I though you were just trying(like most kids) to blow through it and get it over with. You really put in some work here and I think that is excellent. It makes it worth it for persons here who really try to help with the vastness of historical studies.



"Although historians and US citizens remain divided about Kennedy's success and popularity, some being harsher than others"



This is fair to those who disagree with your thesis and accuracy in such complex events is really not the point.

You did a good job-6 marks from me.





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You're pretty much on the mark, but just a couple of points: The main concern over war in those days was over a (probably nuclear) war with the USSR, which people worried about a lot more in the early '60s that they did about Vietnam.

Also, the "hippy youth culture" didn't get going until about 1967 or so--white students worked for civil rights during the JFK administration but they weren't hippies.

And segregation was still very much alive in the south in the Kennedy years, although it was losing some ground.