John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
From Camelot to
Oliver Stone
JFK and
Jackie
Background: Kennedy as Cold Warrior
McCarthyism and
Containment
The Election of 1960 and the Attack
from the Right
The Missile Gap
Military Spending
Cuba
Pay Any Price, Bear
Any Burden [Eisenhower's Farewell]
JFK-Nixon
Debate
JFK
Inaugural
Inaugural Address Frost Poem
The New President
Revolution in Latin
America
Cuba: Bay of Pigs
and Missile Crisis
Castro
at Bay of Pigs
Kennedy-Khrushchev
Exchanges Missiles
in Cuba The
CIA and Castro
Alliance for
Progress [modernization then militarization]
Dedicating
School in Colombia
Peace Corps
Civil Rights
JFK
and MLK
Europe
Berlin and the USSR
JFK
and Khrushchev
Vietnam
Kennedy and Diem: "The Keystone to the Arch, the
finger in the dike" [speech]
Ngo
Dinh Diem Ngo
Dinh Nhu Mme.
Nhu
National Liberation, Ho Chi Minh, and the NLF
Ho
Eisenhower's Advice
Credibility and Escalation
LBJ Visit [5/61]
Increased Support
Kennedy
and the Brass
Strategic Debate
"Flexible Response"
Pacification: The
Strategic Hamlets
Story
Troops? Whose?
Toughing It Out
Deterioration
in the South
Taylor-Rostow
Mission [10/61]
"Sink or Swim with Ngo Dinh Diem"
1962: High Point for
U.S.?
Vann and
Military Critics
The Shock
of Ap Bac
Ngo
Way Out?
Diem/American
Tension
The
Buddhist Crisis
Overtures
to the NLF
Kennedy's Choice?
"I Think
We Should Stay":
The Coup
The
Assassination
The Legacy
The Coup Aftermath
Chaos in
the South
Organizing
the Front