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