kennedy’s foreign policy bay of pigs berlin wall cuban missile crises
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Kennedy’s Foreign Policy
Bay of PigsBerlin WallCuban Missile Crises
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Continued Cold War
▪ Kennedy continued Cold War policies
▪ Tried to get soviets to stop nuclear testing
▪ Needs a better response to the change in fighting techniques
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Flexible Response
▪ Many countries that received aid from the Soviets used Guerrilla Warfare.
▪ Responds with flexible response-special military forces trained in guerilla warfare
▪ Creates Special Forces-Green Berets
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Prevent Communism through Aid
▪ Like Marshal Plan, Kennedy believed aid in poor countries like Africa, L.A., and Asia would prevent growth of communism
▪ Established Peace Corp
▪ Alliance for Progress- help “free” L.A. countries get rid of poverty.
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Cold War in Cuba
▪ Fidel Castro seized power in 1959. Got support from Soviets.
▪ US felt threatened because Cuba is 90 miles from Florida
▪ CIA recites Cuban exiles to go back to Cuba and overthrow Castro
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Bay of Pigs
▪ Kennedy takes advice from military aides and allows this attack.
▪ They land in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.
▪ Complete disaster.
▪ Resulted in 3 things; Kennedy doesn’t trust military aides, L.A. countries lose trust in Kennedy, Soviets see Kennedy as weak.
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Berlin War
▪ Since WWII city of Berlin divided.
▪ Khrushchev (soviets) order all westerners out of Berlin.
▪ Many people fled to the west.
▪ To prevent this they build a concrete wall known as the Berlin Wall to keep people in.
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Cuban Missile Crises
▪ Spy planes reveal Cuba was building missile sites aimed for US.
▪ Kennedy orders navy blockade to prevent anything coming in from the Soviets.
▪ Warned Soviets with nuclear counter attack if soviets bombed
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Cuban Missile crises cont.
▪ Crises lasted 5 days. Both countries very close to WWII.
▪ US. Promises to remove missiles sites in Turkey (which were pointed at Soviets) and Soviets would remove missiles from Cuba.
▪ Hot line was put in between US and USSR for faster communications
▪ http://video.pbs.org/video/2289498535/