KENNEDY

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• 1961-1963
• 35 president
• Confronted cold war tensions in Cuba, vietnam, and elsewhere
• Renewed drive for public service
• Eventually provided dederal supportnfor the growing civil right movment

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• Approved the plan to send 1,400 CIA to cuba
• To spur a rebelian that would overthrow Fidel Castro
• Mission failed
• Discussed the city of berlin with Nikkita Khrushchev.
• Sent army troops to reasure West Berlin of U.S

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• Gave his modt speech over there on june 1963
• Clashed with Khrushchev in Oct. 1962 during cuban missile crisis
• testandoff lasted nearly two weeks before Khrushchev agreed to dismantle Soviet missile sites
• In July 1963, Kennedy won his greatest foreign affairs victory when Khrushchev agreed to join him and Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in signing a nuclear test ban treaty.

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• On November 22, 1963, the president and his wife landed in Dallas
• as the motorcade was passing through downtown Dallas, shots rang out; Kennedy was struck twice, in the neck and head
• Twenty-four-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the killing but was shot and fatally wounded two days later
• local nightclub owner Jack Ruby while being led to jail

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