Kennedy's Foreign Policy
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- JFK's Foreign Policy
- Berlin
- Vienna Summit June1961
- focused on Berlin, Vietnam and Laos
- Kennedy admitted that Khrushchev "savaged" him
- Untitled
- 13 Aug 1961- barbed wire barrier between East and West was built
- travel between was strictly controlled
- shot on site for illicit crossing
- the building of the wall reduced Europe's tension
- JFK wasn't criticised by Reps. or the media for the wall
- "a wall is better than a war"
- Dean Rusk exploited the situation for propaganda
- Vienna Summit June1961
- Vietnam
- U.S propped up Catholic dictator Diem
- Journalist Stanley Karnow warned JFK about the situation in 1961
- JFK saw Vietnam as a military problem and not a diplomatic one
- Sanctioned build- up of advisors and aid
- went from 800 MAAG in 1960 to 23,000 MAAG in 1963
- Sanctioned build- up of advisors and aid
- Kennedy used 'flexible response' to combat the defeats they got in Vietnam
- 'strategic hamlets'
- created resentment for the U.S among the Viets
- 'strategic hamlets'
- Macmillan PM of Britain and de Gaulle warned JFK about further involvement
- Cuba
- Jan 1959- Castro deposes U.S backed dictator Batista
- Bay of Pigs April 1961
- 1.4K invasion of exiles in Cuba were captured and surrendered
- embarrassing U.S defeat and solidified Castro's regime
- 13 Days (Cuban Missile Crisis)
- 19 Oct- Excomm narrow it down to a blockade with an airstrike as backup
- 24 Oct- 10AM quarantine zone is in force
- 25 Oct- @ Un Adlai reveals the missiles in Cuba
- 26 Oct- Khrush 1st Telegram: missiles were defensive and will be removed
- 27 Oct- Khrush wants missiles out of Turkey too
- JFK only replies to first one but secretly agrees to second one
- Curtis Le May: "the greatest defeat in our history"
- JFK only replies to first one but secretly agrees to second one
- Berlin
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