PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE GREAT SOCIETY PROGRAM
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to bolster the nation’s prestige and power in the face of several foreign policy setbacks
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in order to install nuclear weapons in space
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to fulfill his campaign promise to put a man on the moon
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to shift the focus away from his domestic policy failures
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kennedy made and sustained his commitment to developing the capabilities needed to reach the Moon before the Soviet Union because doing so was clearly linked to enhancing U.S. global power and national pride in the Cold War setting of the 1960s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kennedy did have one triumph of foreign policy: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the closest the world has come to nuclear war.
Detailed explanation-3: -JOHN F. KENNEDY: If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man and his quest for knowledge and progress is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not. And it is one of the great adventures of all time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kennedy’s foreign policy was dominated by American confrontations with the Soviet Union, manifested by proxy contests in the global state of tension known as the Cold War. Like his predecessors, Kennedy adopted the policy of containment, which purported to stop the spread of Communism.