Often times political activism was a dominant trait that characterized JFK’s approach to political circumstances. JFK had campaigned describing a “new frontier” of opportunity and challenge calling it a struggle against the common enemies of man tyranny, poverty, disease, and War. Within this promise, as it related to expansion of American foreign policy, the goal was to find new effective ways of waging the Cold War. The solution JFK and his team produced was a strategy called “flexible response”. The flexible response was JFK's effort to move away from Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation. Early in his new presidency JFK made the decision to execute a previously approved plan for the invasion of Cuba by anti-castro refugees.
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Faced with a huge migration from soviet-controlled East Germany into West Germany, Nikita Khrushchev made the decision to stop the flow of people from east to west separating families and creating a prison like atmosphere and East Germany. Although advised by some to use American forces to destroy this wall JFK exercised restraint and chose rather to send 1500 troops to Berlin instead. With the focus turning back to Cuba Again by October 1962 an American spy plane Discover's nuclear missile sites in Cuba, thus beginning the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although on the brink of nuclear war JFK successfully defended American interest during one of the most tense and worst times of the Cold War. Luckily for the world by October 28th Nikita khruschev acquiesced and withdrew the Soviet nuclear threat from Cuba. In addition to averting nuclear war there were some short term games in US- Soviet relations . The Hotline was established by 1963 creating a direct line of communication between Washington and the Kremlin, in an effort to avoid such a crisis in the future. Additionally, this crisis led to a treaty Banning various nuclear testing. JFK’s flexible response appears to have been a well named strategy based on the varied and measured application of force versus negotiations during the Kennedy
Faced with a huge migration from soviet-controlled East Germany into West Germany, Nikita Khrushchev made the decision to stop the flow of people from east to west separating families and creating a prison like atmosphere and East Germany. Although advised by some to use American forces to destroy this wall JFK exercised restraint and chose rather to send 1500 troops to Berlin instead. With the focus turning back to Cuba Again by October 1962 an American spy plane Discover's nuclear missile sites in Cuba, thus beginning the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although on the brink of nuclear war JFK successfully defended American interest during one of the most tense and worst times of the Cold War. Luckily for the world by October 28th Nikita khruschev acquiesced and withdrew the Soviet nuclear threat from Cuba. In addition to averting nuclear war there were some short term games in US- Soviet relations . The Hotline was established by 1963 creating a direct line of communication between Washington and the Kremlin, in an effort to avoid such a crisis in the future. Additionally, this crisis led to a treaty Banning various nuclear testing. JFK’s flexible response appears to have been a well named strategy based on the varied and measured application of force versus negotiations during the Kennedy