Kennedy 's Policy Goals During The Cold War

Kennedy was going to pull back on the Vietnam war: President Kennedy was going to get our troops out of Vietnam. He already had issued an order, NSAM 1093, that called for 1,000 military advisers to be called back home. The writer happens to have direct knowledge of this pull-out of troops. A very close associate, in the position to know, said that Sam Adams of the CIA research team, wrote a letter detailing what a grave mistake a conflagration in Viet-Nam would be. For the USA. Kennedy met with him a second time and Sam Adams felt that JFK was, in fact, going to get us out of this war. Robert Kennedy ran for president in 1968, believing the same thing as did his brother. LBJ's first act as president was to rescind NSAM 1093. There was too much money committed to this war. The Industrial Military Complex was now in

Even before John Fitzgerald Kennedy began his presidency in 1961, he viewed foreign policy as one of the most important aspects of our lives. In one speech he said, “Foreign policy today, irrespective of what we might wish, in its impact on our daily lives, overshadows everything else. Expenditures, taxation, domestic prosperity, the extent of social sciences — all hinge on the basic issue of war or peace” (JFK Library). As the first president born in the 20th century, the youngest president to be elected to office, and the youngest president to die in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s time in office was brief, but full of difficult challenges in foreign affairs. I feel that he

The Cold War took a lot of affect on the United States Domestic Policy and American society. Domestic Policies were changed due to the world affairs, and the American society had a dramatic change from the war. The United States Government became extra secure and protected. Many new political cartoons were created from the fear of Communists and other big events and things that were happening during this time period. War was the leading problem in the US during this time period. Many citizens became upset and protested. Also, many American citizens were scared because they heard many people talking about the war,and what was happening and took as many measures on safety as they possibly knew and could. Later, through science, we have learned that many of their tactics when it came to protecting themselves would not even have worked.The United States spend a lot of extra money during this time period to keep up with the war. (DBQ questions)

Importantly, President John F. Kennedy policy on foreign helped make a great president. According to Bureau of Public Affair, “Kennedy’s foreign Policy”, Kennedy’s formed alliance with Latin America to help poor women and man that suffer from hunger and poverty. The United State hoped that Latin America will make the countries stronger. Next, Kennedy’s began American involvement with Vietnam. He’s getting involved because he received conflict advice from Vietnam. South Vietnam had a war about the Geneva Accord into Communist North Vietnam but not south. Kennedy’s goal is to containing communism so he supported South Vietnam and expand the military. And then American war in Vietnam was over because North Vietnam captured the capital city of Saigon. Now one of Kennedy’s important foreign policy

From Eisenhower, Kennedy inherited the "Cold War" with the Soviet Union. In 1962, when American spy planes discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S., many thought the nation was at the brink of war. Kennedy imposed a blockade of Cuba but promised not to invade, and the Soviet Union dismantled the missile bases, resolving the confrontation. (Upon seeing photos of the dismantling, Adlai Stevenson, now Kennedy's Ambassador to the U.N, famously said, "We are eyeball to eyeball with the enemy, and I think the other fellow just blinked.") Kennedy also promised to send Americans to the moon and bring them back safely before the end of the decade, and although he did not live to see it, his promise came true. He called his program to make things better for Americans "the New Frontier" and he started the Peace Corps.

The Kennedy Doctrine, which was to “Respond flexibly to communist expansion, especially guerrilla warfare” (Roskin & Berry, 2010, p. 58), was executed in this history-making event to the letter. Kennedy could have, and had the power to cease the unfolding events with an all out air strike on the Soviet Union. Some say it is due to bureaucratic politics and the accessibility of information that was provided to the National Security Council by the CIA and air force that this did not occur. In responding flexibly to what The Soviet Union and Cuba were planning, America assessed the volatile situation, forethought possible outcomes and negated all their options albeit under a tight time constraint. America’s forces were mobilized and ready to strike, had word been given nuclear war was on the cards. Kennedy wanted to give The Soviet Union an out and put a halt to a possible war, rethink the situation and allow an alternative to occur. Due to this diplomacy, The Soviet Union entered into negotiations “the Kremlin offered a deal: no Soviet missiles in Cuba if Washington promised not to invade” (Roskin & Berry, 2010, p. 87). By using the flexible response tactic, Kennedy was

The impacts of Kennedys choices against the Soviets did not just create changes in his political life, but his personal one as well. During the Cold War he and the vice president Lyndon B. Johnson, both promised the country they would keep a tough act on the Soviets, and

stop invading Cuba and threatening its communist ideology otherwise the Soviet Union would launch the missiles on the U.S. In Kennedy’s letter to Khrushchev, he accepts Khrushchev’s proposal after much deliberation and negotiation saying, “The continuation of this threat…would surely lead to an intensification of the Cuban crisis and a grave risk to the peace of the world.” This shows that Kennedy did not want to risk starting another war over a potential threat from the U.S.S.R. Not bombing Cuba would prevent a war, would incur little to no casualties, and would improve the U.S.’s impression to the rest of the world. Much like how the U.S. ended the war with atomic bombing and how the Soviet Union installed missiles to prevent the U.S. from invading Cuba, the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia to prevent the Cambodian Genocide from escalating any further. Again, the driving force behind the Cambodian Genocide was the conflict of ideologies: the Khmer Rouge supported an agrarian lifestyle and targeted those who were educated and those who they suspected were American or Vietnamese spies. This conflict in ideology led the Khmer Rouge to want to purify their country much like how Hitler wanted to purify

The most successful foreign policy was Flexible Response because it allowed for President John F. Kennedy to deal with foreign issues with both military and nonmilitary options. Kennedy took the position after Dwight D. Eisenhower with a narrow victory over Richard Nixon. Though the Soviet Union was causing trouble at the time, Kennedy focused on Cuba. The foreign policy of Flexible Response played a large role in dealing with the Soviet Union and Cuba. Cuba had a rising communist leader named Fidel Castro but as soon as Cuba became friends with the Soviet Union, President Eisenhower broke ties with the country. To eliminate the threat of the rising leader, President Eisenhower devised a plan. This event would later be called the Bay of Pigs

Eisenhower was worried about satellites breaking international space laws. The Soviet Union could accuse the U.S. of illegal overflights. Eisenhower assumed that country’s airspace sovereignty did not extend into outer space, and he used the International Geophysical Year launches to establish this principle in international law. Eisenhower dreaded the fact that he might cause an international incident and be called a "warmonger" if he were to use military missiles as launchers Eisenhower's support of the nation's fledgling space program was officially modest until the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, gaining the Cold War enemy enormous prestige around the world. He then launched a national campaign that funded not just space exploration

If Kennedy had utilized a system of reverse planning and determined the desired end state for U.S. support of Vietnam, then determined intermediate actions and goals to achieve that end state I think it's highly likely we could have seen a significantly different history unfold in Vietnam. Flying by the seat of his pants and making day to day decisions was quite possibly the most haphazard option the

Kennedy’s view of the world was not as hard as President Eisenhower. The Cold War tensions were high due to the concern over massive retaliation that included the use of nuclear weapons. Kennedy saw opportunities for diplomacy and alternative military strategies in addition to possible retaliation. Kennedy started a new generation of foreign policy experts who were to come up with optional strategies to going to war. From these experts came Flexible Response.

The new president took a leading role in the world in which popularity became its main ally. Especially in Europe, Kennedy represented the figure of a different leader, the image of a new time; A sort of king with a contemporary cut type. The programs of the new president seemed to want to turn the politics of the Republicans, who put the weight of their actions in the political relations with the towns. Kennedy's policy was for economic and cultural relations. Kennedy relied on the formula of global responsibilities to defend the interests of the United States in the

McNamara's eleven lesson he describes the cuban missiles, McNamara explains how Kennedy was trying to stay out of the war with Cuba. His example was during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, a former U.S. ambassador Tommy Thompson, disagreed with JFK in a key Cabinet meeting, by advising that Khrushchev would probably take a deal and avert the crisis if he could portray his actions as having stopped a U.S. invasion of Cuba this also went hand in hand with a later withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey (even when all missiles were withdrawn from Cuba). The reason behind this is being that Thompson knew the Kremlin fairly well, Thompson could foresee a resolution of the crisis. In contrast, McNamara admitted that, regarding Vietnam, no such

During the 1950’s and the beginning 1960’s was known as the period of change within the civil