Chapter 26 Section 1 Discussion Questions

1. Who did JFK defeat in the 1960 Presidential election?

Richard M Nixon

2. What were the 4 new Cold War strategies launched by Kennedy?

Build up both conventional and special military forces, a flexible

response, alliance for progression, created peace corps
3. What did the Peace Corp do?

Sent American volunteers to develop nations to assist with

services like education and healthcare
4. What were the two major confrontations caused by the sudden threat of Castro and
communism?
Bay of pigs invasion, Cuban Kissel crisis

5. What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion? Was the invasion a success and who
took responsibility?

To train Cuban exiles who fled to the US and send them back to cuba to start a
revolution,it was a failure and Kennedy did
6. What happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
American intelligence agencies photographed soviet nuclear missile installations
in Cuba
Use the map:

7. Name 3 US cities that were potentially threatened in the Cuban missile crisis:
Washington DC, New York, Pittsburgh

8. How did Kennedy work in public and behind the scenes to resolve the Cuban missile
crisis?

Go on tv and blamed Khrushchev for reckless action that threatened

world peace
9. After 6 tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, what was the outcome? How did the US
and Moscow improve communications after the crisis was avoided?

The soviets back off and removed the missiles, a hotline between Washington DC
and Moscow
10. What happened between the US, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and 36 other countries
in 1963?
They signed a nuclear test ban treaty

11. What disagreement over Berlin led to the building of the Berlin Wall?
Khrushchev insisted the US end it’s military presence in West Berlin
and Kennedy refused
12. What did the Berlin Wall symbolize?
A symbol of gulf between the democratic west and the communist east