1. Section 1: Kennedy’s Foreign Policy
Chapter 30..
Section 1:
Kennedy’s Foreign Policy

2. Bay of Pigs – 1961
1500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles

4. Fidel Castro - dictator

5. Berlin Wall – 1961
Divided the East from the West/symbolized Communist repression
About 100 miles long
12 feet high/torn down 1989

6. (5 days passed, Soviets agreed to remove missiles from Cuba)
Cuban Missile Crisis – 1962
Kennedy/blockade/Soviets
(5 days passed, Soviets agreed to remove missiles from Cuba)

7. “It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.”

8. Hot line: between Moscow and Washington, D.C.
Kennedy/Krushchev

9. Section 2
“War in Vietnam”

12. *Vietnam conflict began
during WW II.
*Japan had taken the French
province of Indochina which
is made up of Vietnam,
Laos, and Cambodia

13. Ho Chi Minh – fought against the Japanese

14. Indochina was full of:
Natural Resources:
Rice, Rubber, Tin

15. 1954…. Vietnam fought for independence from the French
According to the Geneva Accords, Vietnam would be divided at the 17th Parallel

16. North – Ho Chi Minh
Communist
Capital: Hanoi
South – Non Communist
Capital: Saigon

17. United States sent billions of
dollars to South Vietnam.
U.S. sent soldiers as advisers
South Vietnam was under the leadership of Ngo Dinh Diem
(French educated Vietnamese leader) Refused to hold elections

18. coup – overthrow of
a government
(Diem was killed)
search & destroy mission –
to seek out the Vietcong or
North Vietnamese units and
destroy them

19. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:
This gave President Johnson broad authority to use American forces in Vietnam.

20. napalm:
an explosive that burned intensely to destroy jungle growth
agent orange:
Chemical herbicides that were sprayed to clear out forests and tall grasses.

21. People that oppose the war were a part of the…..
>>>counterculture<<<

22. Opponents of the war…
(doves)
Supporters of the war…
(hawks)

23. deferments were given:
excused people from the
draft – mostly from the
middle class.

24. Turning Point: Tet Offensive
(Vietnamese New Year)
A series of attacks throughout the
south by the North Vietnamese

25. President Johnson does not run for another term….
He announces a “New step toward peace.”

26. Election of 1968: George Wallace – third party
Hubert Humphrey – Democrat
Richard Nixon - Republican

27. Peace treaty signed… Jan. 27, 1973 with North Vietnam
Vietnam is unified in The north invades the south and the south surrenders.

28. People in the war: 58,000 Americans died 300,000 wounded
1 million Vietnamese
civilians/soldiers died
2.7 million Americans served in
Vietnam
MIAs – Missing in Action

30. Vietnam Memorial
Maya Ying Lin