1. Kennedy’s Foreign Policy

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

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

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

6. Bay of Pigs Invasion

7. JFK discusses Bay of Pigs

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

9. - Threatened major US cities

10. 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

11. -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

12. artist rendition of the Cuban Missile Crisis

13. -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

14. 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

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