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Date Posted: 18:17:12 03/26/03 Wed
Author: cassie
Subject: my last 3 ch31 sctions

Diversifiying Foreing Policy
*Felxiable Response
-find more ways to fight communism
-"Green Beerets"
-trianed ot fight guerrilla conflicts/other limited wars
-latin america to repair relations(alliance for Progress)
-put in place Agency for International Development/forgein aid
-peace corps
*Bay of Pigs
-anti-Castro Cuban exiles trianed by CIA
-April 7,1961 landed @ Bay of Pigs,Cuba
-expected U.S. air support
-cuban uprising
-but never happend
-Kennedy had doubts
-Castro army crushed invaders


The Quagmire
-7yrs. soldiers fought a war they couldn't win or understand
*Strategy of "Attrition"
-a military stratgy
-a belif that u.s. could inflict casualties & damage on enemy
-that would make them unable & unwilling to continue
-strategy failed
-North Vietnames/willing to commit to the fight
-u.s. bombed vietnam
-end of 1967 any important bombing targets had been destroyed
-though it did not produce what u.s. thought it would
-N. Vitenam had underground tunnels for factories
--got aid from Soviet Union & China
-the bombing only made n.v. stronger
*"Hearts&Minds"\
-u.s wanted to win the people over
-pacification plan failed
-uprooted villagers
-went fleeing to refugee camps or cities
-& destroyed villages & countryside
-went through Viet COng sanctuaries
-troops urged prez. to do something about the war

The King & Kennedy Assinations
-april 4 mlik jr. killed in memphis
-killed by james earl ray
*roits
-mlk death cause out pouring of grief
-his death caused riots
-robert kennedy campaign 4 presidental nomination
-june 6 he was assinated by sirhan sirhan
-robert identified w/ the underclass
-he shaped the "kennedy legacy"
*Kennedy Legacy"
-people saw his family as a hopefulness they had to come
-public liked robert
-since his death it seemed Humphrey would get dem. nomination
*Democratic National Convention
-debated the anti-war position
-and what to do about the nominaion

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