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Bay of Pigs
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Alliance of Progress
The goals of this alliance was to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. The alliace ultimately failed because of failure to meet early expectations oncerning erformance and some projects where seen as arrogant, impractical, or both. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Kennedy chose to perform a blockade to ban the USSR bringing in any further military supplies to Cuba. After further negotiation, Khrushchev and Kennedy did agree on the withdraw of the weapons, and therefore realized the peril of nukes, therefore improved in relations and moved on in creating peace and avoiding further use of nuclear warfare. However, although the outcome of the crisis seemed to be beneficial to both Khrushchev and Kennedy, USA and USSR, the concept of containment had failed. -
Kennedy's Visit to Berlin
The pupose of Kennedy's visit to Berlin was to challange Soviet oppression and offer hope to the people of the divided city. The speech helped make it an international symbol of political oppression. -
Kennedy is Assasinated
Kennedy's plan was to begin to withdraw American troops from Vietnam in 1965, but was assassinated before this could happen.
