Brinksmanship

Roots of Brinksmanship: Truman Administration Spheres of Influence George Kennan President Harry S Truman Domino Theory

Roots of Brinksmanship: Conflicts Between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. Berlin Airlift, 1948-49 Korean War, 1950-53 Chinese Civil War, 1949 Hydrogen Bomb Development

Eisenhower Administration, 1953-61 President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower VP Richard Nixon Director of CIA, Allen Dulles

Brinksmanship in Practice Launch of Sputnik Military Build-up Nuclear Arms Race Commitment to Public Schools Creation of Interstate Highway System

Brinksmanship in Practice Soviet Invasion of Hungary, 1956 U2 Spy Aircraft Mohammed Mossadegh, President of Iran, 1956 Francis Gary Powers Suez War, 1956

Cuban Revolution, 1959 Sugar Plantation in Cuba Fulgencia Batista, Dictator of Cuba Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Fidel Castro, leaders of the Cuban Revolution Cuba

Operation Zapata and the Bay of Pigs Invasion President Kennedy & Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara Anti-Castro rebels training in Louisiana Trying to establish beach head in Cuba Anti-Castro rebels surrendering at Bay of Pigs

Fallout from the Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion Anti-JFK feeling not only rises, but becomes increasingly menacing among the Cuban exile community and the anti-communist crowd Allen Dulles (center) fired by JFK, and replaced by John McCone. JFK threatens to break up the CIA into small pieces and scatter them to the wind. Joint Chiefs of Staff start losing trust in Kennedy