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JFK

and

The Cold War

Kennedy's Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy Basis

Flexible Response

  • Use conventional weapons
  • Buildup Troops
  • Expand Special Forces

Aid to Other Countries

  • Alliance for Progress
  • $20 Billion to Latin America
  • Peace Corps
  • Send Americans abroad
  • Develop poor countries

Life in the Peace Corps

TIMELINE

Life in the Peace Corps Today

Space Race

U.S. Soviet battle for space exploration

  • Soviets win most of the exploration firsts
  • U.S. lands man on the moon first and claims victory....

SPACE RACE

Space Race Video

Bay of Pigs

  • Failed attempt to overthrow Communist Fidel Castro in Cuba
  • Makes Kennedy look weak
  • Beginning of Kennedy not trusting military advisers

Bay of Pigs

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Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis

Berlin Wall

  • Soviets build wall separating East and West Berlin
  • Trying to stop people from leaving East Berlin
  • JFK goes to Berlin to show support
  • "ich bin ein berliner"
  • Stays up from 1961-1991

Berlin Wall

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Almost the end of the World

Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Soviets try putting nuclear missiles into Cuba
  • The U.S. finds out
  • The U.S. stops their ships from getting to Cuba
  • Very tense moment (Closest we get to nuclear war)
  • USSR and US make a deal
  • No missiles in Cuba if...
  • U.S. never invades Cuba
  • U.S. takes nuclear missiles out of Turkey and Italy

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