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JFK - Summary of JFK Presidency

Summary of JFK Presidency
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 JFK

 Election of 1960  Nixon vs. Kennedy  First televised debate  The night, image replaced the printed words as the natural language of politics  New policy towards communism  Flexible response  Kennedy increased defense spending  Increased conventional nonnuclear forces such as troops, ships, and artillery  Also created an elite branch of the army called the Special Forces, or Green Berets  He also tripled the overall nuclear capabilities of the US  Cuban Revolution of 1959  White Eisenhower was still president, Fidel Castro win control of Cuba in 1959  He took over American investments in Cuba angering US owners  On January 3, 1981 Eisenhower cuts off diplomatic relations from Cuba  Castro turns to the Soviet Union for financial support  About 10% of Cuba population runs to  Bay of Pigs Invasion  JKF inherits Eisenhower policy  Has doubts about the invasion  It fails  Cuban Missile Crisis  USSR begins to supply Cuba with weapons  Castro and Khrushchev trying to bring medium range nuclear weapons to Cuba  Kennedy warns Russia not to send any missile to Cuba  Missiles in Cuba could reach US  We agree to move our missiles out of Turkey if they stop taking missiles to Cuba  Back to Germany  Remember Germany was divided after WWII  The city of Berlin also divided  3 million East Germans have left to escape communism  Khrushchev wants to close all roads between east and west Germany

 Kennedy will not allow it  The Berlin Wall  On August 13, 1961 soldiers start to build the Berlin Wall  the wall is built to make crossing from east to west impossible  Symbol of communism  If you try to cross, you got shot  Kennedy Assassination  November 22, 1963  Kennedy goes to Dallas, Texas  In the car: JFK and his wife, Texas governor John Connally and his wife  There were 3 shots  Hit Kennedy in the head and throat  Shots came from the Book Depository  Lee Harvey Oswald  Former marine  Was a communist  Pro Castro  Was employee of the Book Depository  Caught two hours later at a movie theater  Vice President Lydon Johnson sworn into office as President on Air Force One  Jack Ruby shoots Oswald 

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JFK - Summary of JFK Presidency

Course: US History (1491 ce)

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University: Jackson College

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JFK
Election of 1960
Nixon vs. Kennedy
First televised debate
The night, image replaced the printed words as the natural language of
politics
New policy towards communism
Flexible response
Kennedy increased defense spending
Increased conventional nonnuclear forces such as troops, ships, and
artillery
Also created an elite branch of the army called the Special Forces, or
Green Berets
He also tripled the overall nuclear capabilities of the US
Cuban Revolution of 1959
White Eisenhower was still president, Fidel Castro win control of
Cuba in 1959
He took over American investments in Cuba angering US owners
On January 3, 1981 Eisenhower cuts off diplomatic relations from
Cuba
Castro turns to the Soviet Union for financial support
About 10% of Cuba population runs to
Bay of Pigs Invasion
JKF inherits Eisenhower policy
Has doubts about the invasion
It fails
Cuban Missile Crisis
USSR begins to supply Cuba with weapons
Castro and Khrushchev trying to bring medium range nuclear
weapons to Cuba
Kennedy warns Russia not to send any missile to Cuba
Missiles in Cuba could reach US
We agree to move our missiles out of Turkey if they stop taking
missiles to Cuba
Back to Germany
Remember Germany was divided after WWII
The city of Berlin also divided
3 million East Germans have left to escape communism
Khrushchev wants to close all roads between east and west Germany

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