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Objective 8.2- Crisis Under Kennedy

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with Nikita Khrushchev is premier of the Soviet Union the United States place an extremely determined and aggressive enemy in the United States in any way possible culturally economically International stage in the cold war with the election of President John F Kennedy in 1960 some government officials began to push for need to policy of brinkmanship advancements in weapons technology since the development of the idea of mutually assured destruction helped to lead to the Kennedy Doctrine the Kennedy administration who developed what is known as flexible response which allowed the United States military several options for dealing with Soviet threats rather than a single all-or-nothing policy of nuclear this new policy directed the United States response to non-nuclear Soviet strike and what allowed the United States to reply in kind the key to this is that a conventional military Builder with this conventional military buildup United States Canal stop Soviet aggression via Conventional Weapons while under the policy of mutually assured destruction the United States would respond with Fallout nuclear war only as a last resort with the United States response with an all-out nuclear attack was the development of an elite special Terry Force called The Green Berets Kennedy's Green Berets for covert operations this what allowed the United States to take out key targets without a full military deployment and what time's these missions would be taken care of without anyone knowing about it was the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1959 communist call Castro seizes control of the nation of Cuba only 90 miles off the coast of Florida as a communist over light heavily on the Soviet Union for a which made Cuba is Rhett right off the coast of the United States United States cut off diplomatic relations with Cuba and thousands of Cuban Exiles fled to the United States for Liberty in 1961 JFK approves a plan to invade Cuba with cia-trained Cuban Exiles the invasion was a plan that was put into place during the Eisenhower Administration following the model used by the CIA in Guatemala the Cuban Exiles would be armed and trained by the Central Intelligence Agency and then backed up with US Military Support the Cuban X would invade the island make out any resistance and then we establish control and topple Fidel Castro however due to a series of blunders the plan fails miserably as everything breaks down are killed or captured the Pigs invasion is a tremendous failure for the United States and Kennedy publicly accepts responsibility for that failure Bay Pigs invasion bolster the Soviet cause defend Cuba from the United States the failed Bay of Pigs invasion is without a doubt the biggest failure of the Kennedy presidency push the United States hard after the American bonder of the Bay of Pigs invasion JFK and cruise ship meet in Vienna Austria at this meeting cruise ship aggressively test Kennedy's youth experience he threatened to blockade West Berlin JFK refused to back down all of this leads to the divided in Berlin and the creation of the Berlin Wall Kennedy had begun to show his attorney may contain Communism on a TV address JFK to finally declare the US would not be driven from West Berlin but we must also be ready to resist with Force if force is used to punish other alone would fail together they can serve the cause of freedom and peace Indian the United States at the advantages of a superior nuclear weapon Arsenal as well as the moral right in the eyes of the world on August 13th of 1961 under Darkness directed The Berlin Wall this concrete wall was meant to keep East berliners from escaping to West Berlin since his walls erected in the middle of a city it split families apart this wall was so indiscriminately place that's on what's the wind directly through building Andy's berliners would break up the windows of these buildings in order to create a solid wall over the years that the wall divided Berlin many people took Desperate Measures to escape East for one group of defectors even Escape using a hot air balloon to cross over the wall nearly two years after the Berlin Wall President Kennedy travel to West Berlin for a state visit in the world  who really don't understand or say they don't  what is the greatest you between the Free World and the Communist World Kennedy had learned his lesson from the Vienna conference as well as his mishandling of vision and he knew it was time to get more aggressive when dealing with the Soviets during the speech he wanted to make a statement about the evils of communism have any difficulty  and democracy is not perfect  but we have never had to put a wall up to keep people and prevent them from leaving in the divided City Edwin 1 call  call free man wherever they may live  citizens of Berlin  and therefore as a free man I take pride in the world with these words JFK to finally slammed the wall as an ugly symbol of communist oppression against Freedom everywhere when John F Kennedy entered office he was young and inexperienced and its first meeting with crew stuff to you as weak and showed his vulnerability and he made a poor decision with the Bay of Pigs invasion but Kennedy use these disappointments as a way to learn and improve future he change his outlook on the Cold War and realize he need to become more aggressive through Chef the lessons he learned during these events will guide him through an event that let us within moments World War 3

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