Chapter 29: Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960 - 1968

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

1. Analyze the expectations and constraints that Kennedy faced in establishing his domestic New Frontier and explain how his approach to civil rights differed from Eisenhower’s.
   
   
2. Describe what choices and expectations shaped Kennedy’s Cold War foreign policies and how his policies contributed to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
   
   
3. Understand how Johnson’s Great Society expanded on the New Deal and how the outcome of the Great Society’s programs contributed to increased disillusionment and social tensions.
   
   
4. Explain how the expectations of African Americans changed as the civil rights movement changed from a primarily southern movement confronting legal discrimination to a national movement combating poverty and social prejudice.