Zusammenfassung der Ressource
JFK's Legacies
- Space Programme
- Sparked by 'Space Race' with USSR
- USSR sent the first
man to space in 1961
- Kennedy promised to
land the first man on
the moon by end of 60's
- Requested $9 bn from Congress to do this
- Was successful- won Space Race
- Peace Corps
- Created March 1961
- First 2 years- 5000
American volunteers sent
to 46 developing countries
- Kennedy's biggest
legacy- still exists
- National Parks
- 3.85 million acres of land
acquired under Kennedy-
'udalls' of land...
- 6 monuments and 20
historic sites were also
claimed
- Appointed Udall as Secretary of
Interior (includes environment),