1、The domestic and international background of Kennedys 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 presiden
2、cy and the countrys 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 w
3、as 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 sptnk 人造卫星into orbit in 1957.Cause: U.S. and Soviet relations were at the low ebb（低潮） in1960.,Contra
4、diction 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 barga
5、ining chip(谈判的筹码) according to the ever-changing balance of power.,VS,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 Kennedys goal of “a world of law a
6、nd free choice, banishing(消除) the world of war and coercion（高压政治、胁迫）”,The Warsaw pact VS The NATO,the east Germany and the west Germanythe communism and the Capitalism Khrushchev kruf赫鲁晓夫 VS Kennedy At the end of the 1950s, the Soviet won the advantage over the USA 45 years of mutual hatred between
7、the East and the West Nucleus weapons,北大西洋公约组织（North Atlantic Treaty Organization）,华沙公约,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 an
8、d 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, Vietnam and Afghanistan fgn,stn（阿富汗） that the two sides supported.,The Purpose of Massive Holy Bible languages were used in the address.,arouse the sense of agreement among English countriesstressed there are many other things which is much more important than religion,Thank you!,
