THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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his Catholic faith
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his Jewish faith
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his father was a nazi
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his wife came from a communist country
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kennedy Overcame Anti-Catholic Bias to Win the Presidency. “I am not the Catholic candidate for president, ” JFK declared in 1960. “I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic.” “I am not the Catholic candidate for president, ” JFK declared in 1960.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Kennedy faced a confident Soviet Union and a sleeping giant in the People’s Republic of China. Fears of communist expansion plagued American foreign policy in places as distant as Vietnam and as close as Cuba. Like his predecessors, Kennedy made containment his chief foreign policy goal.
Detailed explanation-3: -For the most part, however, Kennedy focused on foreign policy and countering the threat of Communism-especially in Cuba, where he successfully defused the Cuban Missile Crisis, and in Vietnam, to which he sent advisors and troops to support the South Vietnamese government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kennedy ran in the 1960 presidential election. His campaign gained momentum after the first televised presidential debates in American history, and he was elected president, narrowly defeating Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president. He was the first Catholic elected president.