1. JFK: Cold Warrior Flexible Response

2. Foreign Policy Issues JFK will face:
1.) New USSR leader = Khrushchev: very different from Stalin; looking for peaceful resolution to Cold War until
U-2 incident.
2.) USSR has beaten U.S. into space,
Sputnik
3.) Cuba and Soviet = become allies!!

3. ARE WE LOSING
THE COLD WAR??

4. President Eisenhower: U2 Incident
What does the new Russian
leader think about
America?
Francis Gary Powers
= spy pilot caught

5. 1959 NO COMMIES ALLOWED! Another reason Khrushchev might hate the USA…
Nikita Krushchev
NO COMMIES ALLOWED!

6. JFK deals with the Cold War
Three major events take place during JFK’s presidency:
1.) Bay of Pigs Invasion
2.) USSR Builds the Berlin Wall
3.) Cuban Missile Crisis
Use your textbook
Ch 28: 2
to complete the rest of today’s notes.

8. How does this event make
America look?

9. Bay of Pigs Invasion

10. is constructed as a visual reminder of the
On August 17, 1961…The
Berlin Wall
is constructed as a visual reminder of the
“Iron Curtain”
BERLIN WALL