USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Flexible Response gave the president the ability to select from nonmilitary options, as well as military options, when responding to a crisis and allowed the United States to meet each hostile action with a proportional reaction.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kennedy implemented the “flexible response” defense strategy, one that relied on multiple options for responding to the Soviet Union, discouraged massive retaliation, and encouraged mutual deterrence.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Kennedy’s flexible response was different than Eisenhower’s approach to the cold war because Kennedy didn’t want to rely on nuclear weapons as much as Eisenhower did. Kennedy wanted to rely much more heavily on troop buildup and conventional weapons of war.