8.6 JFK's Foreign Policies

Learning intentions:

I can identify and explain President Kennedy’s foreign policies and key events of his presidency.

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President John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policies & Death

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America's secret plan to overthrow Fidel Castro is a fail

America and the USSR come head to head in close nuclear war

President JFK's visit to Berlin in 1963

A treaty to bring some warmth to the Cold War

President JFK's desk

Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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Assassination

Berlin Wall

President JFK's tragic death

Cuban Missile Crisis

Bay of Pigs

• For your warm up you will navigate to the JFK desk. Once there you can move around similar to VR and click on items on his desk.

• Answer the questions in the warm up section of 8.6 in your packet.
• When you are done with the lesson you can come back to his desk and continue looking at his desk

• Click on items to learn more about JFK's presidency and life

CONNECTION: President JFK's Desk

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Click on the laptop to go to JFK's desk via VR:

• For your warm up you will navigate to the JFK desk. Once there you can move around similar to VR and click on items on his desk.

• Once there answer the questions in the warm up section of 8.6 in your packet.
• When you are done you can come back to his desk and look at his other things

• Look for JFK's secret recording button and press it... click "Enter".

CONNECTION: President JFK's Desk

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Click on the laptop to go to JFK's desk via VR:

April 17, 1961

BAY OF PIGS

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• President Eisenhower authorized CIA to secretly train Cuban exiles, known as La Brigada, to invade Cuba
• The purpose was to remove Fidel Castro (communist dictator) from power in Cuba.
• On April 17, 1961- The invasion was a disaster.

• Boats ran into coral reefs and Kennedy canceled air support to keep the United States' involvement a secret.
• Castro’s forces killed/captured almost all of La Brigada.
• The Bay of Pigs was a dark moment for the Kennedy administration because it exposed an American plot to overthrow a neighboring government. The U.S. looked weak and disorganized.

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• USSR placed long-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.

• Location= threat to the U.S.
• The U.S. government took aerial photos of missles and Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine (blockade) to stop the delivery of more missiles to Cuba from the USSR

• USSR offered to remove missiles if the U.S. agreed to remove their missiles from Turkey.
• Kennedy nor Khrushchev wanted nuclear war. “Only lunatics or suicides, who themselves want to perish and to destroy the whole world before they die, could do this,”
• In August 1963, the two countries agreed to a treaty that banned testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere.

October 22, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

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August 5, 1963

The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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• President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev (of USSR) realized that they had come dangerously close to nuclear war. Both leaders sought to reduce tensions between their two nations.
• As Khrushchev described it, "The two most powerful nations had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button." JFK shared this concern, once remarking at a White House meeting, "It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization."
• The United States, the Soviet Union, & the United Kingdom signed The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow on August 5, 1963

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Berlin Wall

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• In June 1961, Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, Austria.
• U.S.S.R. (Khrushchev) demanded East Germany be recognized as communist, but U.S. refused- resulting in USSR building a wall through Berlin.

• Khrushchev retaliated by building a wall through Berlin,
• To stop Germans from leaving Communist East Germany for West Berlin (western allies)
• Guards along the wall shot at people who tried to cross from East Berlin to West Berlin.

Who will be President after Kennedy?

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Kennedy Assassination

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• President JFK & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy were driving in a Presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas, Texas
• Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald from the Texas School Book Depository building
• Oswald strongly supported Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution
• Oswald had lived in the Soviet Union for three years
• Before authorities could learn any more about his murder, Oswald was killed, on live television, by nightclub owner Jack Ruby
• Ruby dies in 1967 of cancer awaiting his 2nd trial

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas

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PRESIDENT JOHNSON SWORN IN

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• Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President (immediately following JFK's death) abord of Air Force Once.
• He was sworn in before the plane had even left Dallas, so that they country would have minimal time without a leader in charge.
• JFK's wife, Jackie (in pink) and First Lady Lady Bird (in yellow) can be seen.

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CONCLUSION: Political Cartoon Analysis

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