President Kennedy's "New Frontier"

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    Kennedys "New Frontier"

  • Alliance for Progress

    Alliance for Progress
    The alliance goal was designed to provide financial assistance and social welfare to cuba and its neighbors. However the alliance would ultimately fail when latin american countries refused to adopt the reforms necessary to significantly reduce poverty.

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion
    Eisenhower approved a planthat called for the (CIA) to train 1,500 anti- castro cuban exiles for a cuban invasion and takeover. Eisenhower's term ended before the training was complete, so kennedy inherited responsibility for the program. His advisors assured him to be victorious however, the outcome was failure, castro's army and supporters quickly repelled the invasion, leaving all but a few hundred of the invading militia either captured or killed

  • Kennedy's Visit to Berlin

    Kennedy's Visit to Berlin
    The purpose of kennedy's visit to Berlin was to challenge Soviet oppression and offer hope to the people of the divided city. After giving the words "I am a berliner" and "For those who say communism is a better system, let them come to berlin". Tension arose Krushchev being the first to take action, constructed the berlin wall to divide the east and west sides of the city tearing apart families and preventing economic exchange.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Kennedy was not only worried about the russian missiles just 90 miles from the coast of florida, but also the psycological effects they had on americans. The National security council decided to go with a plan they labeled "Quarantine" a euphemisim for a naval blockade. The missile crisis impacted the u.s. stand against communism also required kennedy to make foreign policy decisions concerning the growing war in Vietnam.

  • Kennedy's Assassination

    Kennedy's Assassination
    Eisenhower had an established policy of support for anticommunist forces in Southeast Asia, believing that this was the only way to stern the tide of the domino effect. Kennedy adopted the same policy in hopes of limiting the spread of communism. Unfortunately, Kennedy was assassinated before he could see that promise through.