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Question

1.) Explain the factors that led to Kennedy's victory over Nixon in the 1960 presidential campaign.

2.) What were the most significant results of the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 1

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1.)   At the Democratic Convention, he gave the well-known "New Frontier" speech, which represented the changes America and the rest of the world would be going through.

Kennedy asked Johnson to be his Vice Presidential candidate, despite opposition from many liberal delegates and Kennedy's own staff, including Robert Kennedy. He needed Johnson's strength in the South to win what was considered likely to be the closest election since 1916.

In September and October, Kennedy debated Republican candidate and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first televised U.S. presidential debates in U.S. history. During these programs, Nixon, nursing an injured leg and sporting "five o'clock shadow", looked tense and uncomfortable, while Kennedy appeared relaxed, leading the huge television audience to deem Kennedy the winner. Radio listeners, however, either thought Nixon had won or that the debates were a draw.[18] Nixon did not wear make-up during the initial debate, unlike Kennedy. The debates are now considered a milestone in American political history—the point at which the medium of television began to play a dominant role in national politics.[12] After the first debate Kennedy's campaign gained momentum and he pulled slightly ahead of Nixon in most polls. On Tuesday, November 8, Kennedy defeated Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century.

2.) The compromise was a particularly sharp embarrassment for Khrushchev and the Soviet Union because the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey was not made public—it was a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev. The Russians were seen as retreating from circumstances that they had started — though if played well, it could have looked like just the opposite. Khrushchev's fall from power two years later can be partially linked to Politburo embarrassment at both Khrushchev's eventual concessions to the U.S. and his ineptitude in precipitating the crisis in the first place.

The Cuban Missile Crisis spurred the creation of the Moscow-Washington hot line, a direct communications link between Moscow and Washington D.C. The purpose of this facility was to have a way the leaders of the two Cold War countries could communicate directly to better solve a crisis like the one in October 1962.

Various commentators (Melman, 1988; Hersh, 1997) also suggest that the Cuban Missile Crisis encouraged US use of military means, such as in the Vietnam War.

This Russo-American confrontation was synchronous with the Sino-Indian War, dating from the U.S.'s military quarantine of Cuba; historians speculate that the Chinese attack against India, for disputed land, was meant to coincide with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Following this crisis, which brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any point before or since, Kennedy was more cautious in confronting the Soviet Union.

Answer 2

First i would like to say do your own homework, then i would say hat Kennedy ran a better campaign that Nixon did (also the economy may have played a role) question two ~ I think it cause both the USSR and the USA to take a look at what they were doing and caused them to think about the consequences of their actions.

M

Answer 3

Unlike 99 percent of the people on here, I remember WATCHING THE DEBATES LIVE ON TV and Kennedy made Nixon look like a FOOL... just what will happen when McCain get's his wish and goes up against Obama.

The wealthy cuban exiles in Miami took over the Florida political system and have dominated it for the past 40 years.

Answer 4

Look into the TV debates, it was a very big deal in the Nixon-Kennedy Race. If you live by one of the twos Presidential libraries I would go there.

Answer 5

Massive vote fraud in Chicago helped him win the election, if not for Mayor Daley and his political machine Nixon might have won.