肯尼迪职业演讲的国内外背景.pptVIP

The domestic and international background of Kennedy’s address By Croup B Domestic background 1、Kennedy won the election with a narrow margin, only 18,574 more popular votes than Republican candidate Richard Nixon. 2、Besides, Kenney was the youngest candidate ever elected to president of the presidency and the country’s first Catholic president. So, he needed to use the address to convince the country he was capable of leadership and could unite the country. 内部 贫富矛盾尖锐，社会贫富差距巨大，民权运动不断高涨，黑人运动此起彼伏，人民对于政府不满 At that time, the contradiction between rich and poor was intense because the gap among them was huge. The people dissatisfied with the government. International background In the space competition, the United States seemed to be lagging behind after the Soviet Union(前苏联）launched two sputniks [‘sp?tn?k] ﹙人造卫星﹚into orbit in 1957. Cause: U.S. and Soviet relations were at the low ebb（低潮） in1960. Contradiction between socialism countries and capitalistic states is still sharp. The nuclear weapon has played a very important part in United States world strategy. In its rivalry（竞争） with the former Soviet Union, the United States had used its nuclear arsenal（核军火库） either as a trump card﹙王牌﹚ or as a bargaining chip(谈判的筹码) according to the ever-changing balance of power. The Cuba nuclear crisis In October 1962，Soviet deployed the missile in Cuba, while America insisted that they should remove it. the months after the Cuba crisis showed significant progress toward Kennedy’s goal of “a world of law and free choice, banishing(消除) the world of war and coercion（高压政治、胁迫）” The?Cold War?was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc?(the?United States, its?NATO?allies and others) and powers in the?Eastern Bloc?(the?Soviet Union?and its allies in the?Warsaw Pact). It was termed as “cold” because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars in?Korea,?Vietna