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Lectures in History

John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policy

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Iowa State University History Professor Charles Dobbs talked about President John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy. Topics included the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, the raising of the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also talked about President Kennedy’s policy toward Vietnam. This episode is from 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.

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This week, a class about President John F. Kennedy's foreign policy.

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From the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba to the Cuban Missile Crisis,

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it's taught by Iowa State University professor Charles Dobbs. All right, let's get started.

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So we're going to talk today about Kennedy foreign policy.

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And what's interesting about Kennedy's foreign policy isn't just the foreign policy, but the way he did things.

1:21.6

Dwight Eisenhower, coming out of the military, believed in the staff system.

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He had a chief of staff.

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For a while, it was a former general of his from the European theater,

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Walter Beetle Smith, Sherman Adams, the governor of New Hampshire,

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