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alliance for progress
initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. Governor Luis Muñoz Marín of Puerto Rico, was a close advisor on Latin American affairs to Kennedy, and one of his top administrators, Teodoro Moscoso, the architect of "Operation Bootstrap". -
Kennedy’s visit to Berlin
Two years after the construction of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy paid a historic visit to Berlin to challenge Soviet oppression and offer hope to the people of the divided city.
the consequences of the speech would be that in response to Kennedy's Berlin speech, Nikita Khrushchev, days later, remarked that "one would think that the speeches were made by two different Presidents . -
Cuban Missile Crisis
He wanted to abandon the policy of containing communism and instead work.irrespective of what we might wish, in its impact to South Vietnam, where they would train and advise local soldiers against. -
Kennedy is assassinated
Kennedy’s plan was to begin to withdraw American troops from Vietnam in 1965, but was assassinated before this could happen. Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
