Kennedy Administration - Foreign Issues
Foreign Issues
Kennedy's presidency framed the most frightening years of the Cold War. He took the United States closer to the abyss of World War III than any other president. Viewed decades later, many of his foreign policies seem dangerously provocative, but, at the time, most Americans looked with pride upon those policies, which were executed with courage and conviction.
Kennedy accepted the interventionist foreign policy approaches of former presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. Kennedy's goal was a stable world order, held in place by strategic security agreements. Influenced by pre-World War II failures to check the aggression of totalitarian regimes, Kennedy granted Communist aggressors no leeway. After World War II (1939–45), under the threatening cloud of Communist expansion, U.S. foreign policy focused on containing Communism.
Kennedy's foreign policies were based on two basic...
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