Kennedy’s Foreign Policy

Jackie Kennedy is actually not trying to escape from the car; she is getting a piece of JFK’s skull

Zapruder Film JFK shot - Graphic - look away if you don't want to watch it

Foreign Affairs: Bay of Pigs Bay of Pigs Invasion - CIA tried to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba Cuban Exiles US airplanes April 1961- Castro won in 3 days No air support

Bay of Pigs Invasion

JFK discusses Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962- US photographed Soviet nuclear missile installations in Cuba.

- Threatened major US cities

JFK’s solution- Cuban missile crisis. In Public Behind the Scenes U.S. naval blockade of Cuba. -U.S. Remove missiles from Turkey and Italy -USSR remove missiles from Cuba. 10

-6 days – USSR backed off. Nikita Khrushchev - removed the missiles. -period of détente – easing of strained relations - hot line - phone between D.C. and Moscow

artist rendition of the Cuban Missile Crisis

-ended aboveground nuclear testing Result - US, Great Britain, USSR, and 36 countries signed the first Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963. -ended aboveground nuclear testing 13

The US clashed with USSR over Berlin. Kennedy: “Ich bin ein Berliner!” -1961 Khrushchev wanted the US to leave West Berlin. Berlin Wall -wall separates communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin. 14

Ich bin ein Berliner speech the democratic West and the communist East the communist East