1. Brinksmanship

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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

9. 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