HIST 3057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Nikita Khrushchev, Missile Gap, Mario Savio
28 Aug 2015
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Jfk is often remembered as very forward looking liberal, progressive in reality, he came in presidency deeply committed to policy of containment: cold warrior, containment and military expansion. He boosted conventional forces in terms of dollars and size, increased funding for special. Forces, he also dramatically increased us"s nuclear missile arsenal: missile gap . Jfk was running against republican candidate nixon nixon was eisenhower"s vice president. Kennedy tried to link nixon to eisenhower"s foreign policy - key way to attack eisenhower and. Nixon was cultivate the notion so called missile gap developed between soviet union and. If there had been nuclear war in 1960s us would utterly have power to wipe out soviet. Jfk relied on this notion of missile gap to critic nixon for being cheap, not spending money on. Not only increased spending on conventional forces, also nuclear forces: bay of pigs, 1961; cuban missile crisis, 1962. Jfk blamed eisenhower and nixon for losing cuba.
