JFK and the Cold War

Bay of Pigs

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba
• The goal was to set off a popular uprising against Castro

Berlin Wall

• The Berlin Wall was put up to stop Germans from leaving communist East Germany from West Berlin
• It blocked movement between the Soviet sector and the rest of the city

Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Soviet Union had placed long-range nuclear missiles in Cuba
• Soviet Union offered to move the missiles if the U.S. promised not to invade Cuba

Assassination of JFK

• Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of killing Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas Texas

Aid to Other Countries

• Kennedy made the Alliance for Progress to improve relations between the United States and Latin America
• The Peace Corps was another program aimed at helping developing nations fight poverty