Jessica and President Kennedy Talk Policies… Foreign that is!

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was one of those guys who didn’t like to be bullied
  by anyone!

Bolstered the Special Forces… That’s the Green Berets to you and me!

  Kennedy turned to Cuba with the Alliance for Progress in 1961. BASICALLY it
was a Marshall Plan for Latin America. The Alliance was supposed to boost the
relationship between NORTH and SOUTH America in order to counter the
threat from CUBA!!!

1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion  An Unsuccessful attempted landing in Playa Girón in

the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. An attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro
but since it failed, it led to a further deterioration in Cuban-American relations.

Of course, no presidency would be complete without a war! The Vietnam War

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that is! By Kennedy’s death he had ordered more than 15,000 troops into the
war.

Secured passage of the Trade Expansion Act of ’62 (Tariff cuts up to 50% to
 help trade with the Common Market… which he helped get going).

Had to be careful so as not to provoke anyone into

firing off a nuclear weapon… that would’ve been
bad…

The Cuban Missile Crisis in late 1962 created tension EVERYWHERE!

Basically, it was a conflict between the US and the USSR about deployment
of nuclear weapons in Cuba. THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS in considered
the moment when the COLD WAR came closest to becoming a NUCLEAR
WAR. The crisis began on October 14, 1962 and ended fourteen days later
on October 28, 1962, when Nikita Khrushchev announced that the
installations would be dismantled. US reconnaissance discovered that the
USSR was setting up nuclear weapons to “protect” Cuba but when
Kennedy found out he took action and narrowly avoided the Cold War
going nuclear.
Kennedy and Khrushchev made a secret deal, in order
to end the confrontation quickly, quietly and without
firing a single nuclear weapon. Eventually, Khrushchev
withdrew all ships in the area and ordered the
1963 – Kennedy ratified the Nuclear Test Band Treaty. This said that
testingdismantling of the
of any kind (above nuclear
or below weapons/facilities.
ground) Kennedy
of nuclear weapons was
de-quarantined Cuba and agreed to not invade Cuba.
prohibited. This was originally designed to slow the arms race a bit and to
stop the excessive nuclear fallout in the atmosphere.