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bay of pigs invasion
The United States tried to get rid of communism in Cuba. Americans questioned Kennedy's leadership as the president of the United States. The united States failed in the invasion and cuba defeated them because they were waiting for them. -
alliance for progress
to provide finacial assistance and social welfare to Cuba and its neighbors. Latin american countries refused to adopt the reforms necessary to significantly reduce poverty. -
Kennedy's visit to berlin
To show that he would not back down from a fight and have a speech that showed that communism is not a better system. They made the Soviet Union leader mad. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It pushed Amerca to the point that they were going to invade Cuba. It made the United States nervous about going to vietnam and start a war -
Kennedy is assassinated
Because John f. Kennedy was assassinated the vietnam war last ten years longer then what the United States wanted it to, because President Kennedy wanted to pull troops out of vietnam in 1965 but he was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and never got to start pulling them out.