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American Foreign Policy- The Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis

American Foreign Policy- The Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. 1953- Defense Treaty with the Nationalists on Taiwan. New Look Strategy-Massive Retaliation. Covert Force- Guatemala and Iran. Kennedy becomes President in 1960. Cuban Missile Crisis.

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American Foreign Policy- The Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis

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  1. American Foreign Policy- The Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis

  2. 1953- Defense Treaty with the Nationalists on Taiwan New Look Strategy-Massive Retaliation Covert Force- Guatemala and Iran Kennedy becomes President in 1960

  3. Cuban Missile Crisis 1959- Castro overthrows Batista. Cuba ecomes a Communist State Kennedy, the CIA, The Bay of Pigs and Castro

  4. “Assumption is the mother of all screw ups” LSD, exploding cigars, etc. Castro seeks Soviet Aid

  5. October 1962- Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis ICBM- Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles IRBM- Inter-Mediate Range Ballistic Missiles

  6. MAD- Mutually Assured Destruction Why Missiles in Cuba? 1) Cuba wants protection 2) Lack of US Resolve 3) Missile Gap

  7. Why did America care? • Threat • election October 16- ExComm meets

  8. ExComm— President Kennedy Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Taylor Air Force Chief of Staff LeMay Attorney General Robert Kennedy Undersecretary State George Ball Secretary State Dean Rusk Secretary Defense McNamara National Security Advisor Bundy Vice-President Johnson and a few others

  9. Solutions • Invade Cuba • Airstrikes- CJS, AFCS, Acheson • Naval blockade- Ball and Robert Kennedy • Diplomacy

  10. October 22nd- Kennedy goes on TV, announces quarantine 23rd and 24th, Premier Khruschev calls this a violation of international law and will not comply “We’re eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked”

  11. Missiles out of Cuba? -- Pledge not to attack Cuba -- IRBMs in Turkey After CMC, 1) continued buildup of nuclear forces 2) Attempts to prevent these situations- hotline

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