60s

Question 1

describe the affluence in 60s

Answer 1

boom=longes period uninterrupted growth=GNP grew 39% under JFK=unemployment low=96 americans thought living standards grow

but=vietnam=too much gov spending=couldnt afford great society and Vietnam=!0 billion federal budget deficit forced unpopular tax hikes=60% americans saw cost of living as main issue only 5% saw Vietnam
1968=worse=fed budget deficit=19.8 billion=trade deficit at 17 billion 3x that 1966=average american family still had cars air con heating

Question 2

describe JFK anti-poverty programmes and economic divisions

Answer 2

no new major domestic programmes passed under Kennedy but he expanded on other ones=security amendment act=expanded benefits for elderly and disabled=area redevelopment act 1961=created nearly 40,000 jobs=aimed to get US out recession than stop poverty=executive powers to food stamp programme=fed nearly 250,000 and exended Eisenhower’s school lunch programmes to 700,000 put poverty firmly national agenda

Question 3

describe LBJ war poverty

Answer 3

set up EOA to coordinate war poverty=25,000 welfare getting work training,44 states anti-poverty programmes=loans small businesses 17 mil rural loans

Question 4

describe war poverty in terms healthcare

Answer 4

established medicare and medicad=helped elderly who suffered most from expensive healthcare=helped 19 mil 1966=so popular no president dare oppose it=however didnt cover all things eyeglasses=more expensive than thought=medicare doubled amount spent 60s

Question 5

describe war poverty education

Answer 5

54 americans never finished school=LBJ wanted to spend more now to stop going jail=made fed dexpenditure to be doubled to 8 billion =13 million benefitted and shortage teachers ended=by 1970 25% college students received some aid higher education act

Question 6

describe the war on poverty in urban areas

Question 7

did LBJ win war poverty

Answer 7

yes=1 mil benefited from headstart programme and % poverty fell to 11%

conservatives attacked level of fed expenditure on poor as unsustainable and pointed out Harvard cost less than putting ghetto youth in job corps=liberals siad didnt go far enough=one thrid minority ethnic groups still poverty=infant morality rates and unemployment 2x more
-prioritised Vietnam

Question 8

describe the impact of leisure and travel

Answer 8

fitness craze=healthclubs sports equipment therapy=boom industries
recreational drug taking youth=marijuana=Harvard professor did LSD experiments students =LSD used often
did have improvement drugs=health issues
sports=cold war Americans obsessed after ussr won more medals than us in winter olympics=self identification american values=Richard Nixon made love football part campaign
air travel=cheaper faster but private cars still dominated=carried roughly 90% intercity passanger traffic in 1960 and 86% 1970=national culture