Kennedy's 'Flexible Response'
- Created by: Georgie Robinson
- Created on: 15-12-14 14:04
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- Flexible Response
- A move away from Brinkmanship- wanted more options
- Built up conventional forces
- Cuts in expenditure introduced by Eisenhower were reversed by Kennedy
- Army grew from 2.5m to 2.7m from 1960-1964
- Development of the nuclear arsenal
- Talks and negotiations
- Use of covert operations
- attempts to remove Fidel Castro, the new communist leader of Cuba
- Kennedy- Democrat, therefore needed to prove he was tough on communism
- Also sent economic aid to third world countries to prevent Soviet influence
- $20bn given to Latin America to promote land reforms
- Aim was to avoid humiliation in all out nuclear war; wanted to find other strategies to fight the Cold War- limited warfare
- Kennedy- “We intend to have a wider choice then humiliation or all out nuclear war”
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