1. JFK and the Cold War

2. Policies to fight Communism
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD):
Flexible Response:

3. Cold War Events Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
-Cuban refugees trained by CIA to invade Cuba and overthrow
Castro (Communist, ally of Soviet Union)—had to be a secret
mission with no ties to the U.S. due to a risk of war
-Plan failed:
1.)
2.)  
-U.S. was forced to pay a ransom of supplies and medicine to get the
refugees released
-The failure exposed a U.S. plot to overthrow a neighboring country and made
the U.S. look weak and disorganized

5. Berlin Wall (1961):
-Why it was built:
-JFK’s response:

8. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
What caused a “crisis”?:
JFK’s response:
How the crisis was resolved: