Monday, May 23, 2011

JFK Tweets !

TheBOSS-JFK: (Jan 1st, 1959) - ALRIGHT America ! Castros In Power ! :D

TheBOSS-JFK: (Dec 19th, 1960) - 0_o Cuba & USSR ? Not Good

TheBOSS-JFK: (Jan 3rd, 1961) - No More Cuban Goods ! >:l

TheBOSS-JFK: (Apr 12th, 1961) - The Hit On Castro Is Off -.-

TheBOSS-JFK: (Apr 17th, 1961) - Anti-Castro Rebels.... DENIED :/

TheBOSS-JFK: (Jun 3rd, 1961) - At The Boring Summit, Hmu Guys

TheBOSS-JFK: (Jul 27th, 1962) - Castro has some guts, War ?

TheBOSS-JFK: (Aug 10th, 1962) - Cuba & USSR, you got missiles ? We got missiles too !


TheBOSS-JFK: (Sept 11th, 1962) - Blah Blah Blah, Fine I get it, Wars bad :/

TheBOSS-JFK: (Oct 9th, 1962) - Plan "Spy On Cuba" Is Delayed, Stupid Mother Nature

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Topic 12; End

Trueman Doctrine - NATO & Marshall Plan, helping other nations stand a chance & fight Communism


Containment Policy - Containing the spread of Communism


Bay of Pigs Invasion - trained Americans to invade Cuba to discover the missile locations, failed horribly after three days


US Foreign Policy regarding Korea & Vietnam - Our foreign policy was the Containment Policy, and we promised aide to any country that may be taken over by a Communist leader


Intervention - No war going on, but high tensions


Cold War development - USSR ability to build nuclear weapons, Communism vs. Democracy


War Powers Act - President cannot dispatch the military without Congress's consent unless attacked or national emergency


WWII Foreign Policy vs. Post WWII Foreign Policy - USSR = allies, then after war, USSR = Communists = ENEMY !


Limited War - Limited men, resources, supplies; not going all out


Examples of Containment in Europe - Turkey, Poland, keeping missiles in Turkey 


Main Points of Division of Germany - Republic West, Communist West


Douglass MacArther Dismissal - Invaded Korea against direct orders, fired !


Nuclear Test Ban - No new nuclear weapons


Long Term Effect of Vietnam - Troops gone for an extended period, coming back hated


Peace Corps - Humanitarians traveling around the world


End of War - Lifted Berlin Wall, Germany returned to own economy, USSR borders set


Domino Theory - When one falls in, all the others follow


Nixon's Détente - Eased tensions between USSR & United States