The Speech That Seal Jfk's Fate Analysis

June 10, 1963 John F Kennedy did a speech to mark the detente with the soviet union during the cold war. It was written to talk call upon the soviet union to work with the United States to achieve a Nuclear test ban treaty and help relieve tension between countries. Early on JFK thought that a WWIII was gonna happen, so he began to write speeches to call out people and try and form peace with nations. The Commencement address at American University is also known as the “the Speech that Sealed JFK’s Fate”. Since the Speech is known as “the Speech that Sealed JFK’s Fate” and he ended up getting assassinated later that year. This speech is known as “the Speech that Sealed JFK’s fate because the speech pretty symbolized that he had changed because he was focusing more on peace than anything else but yet he still sent troops to …show more content…
Another thing he had mentioned is that he didn't want a war in the world where the world powers would be relatively invulnerable nuclear forces. President JFK wanted to not spend billions of dollars on military powers and more money on education. Another big topic he spoke about is that the world needed to change the point of view on the world of how piece is seen as and if it can be attained or not. He did not want to have a sudden revolution or change in everyone's mind on the matter he wanted it to go by slowly and eventually reach peace. Another big topic that was actually directed directly towards the Soviet Union was, that he believed that most of the cause for the cold war was entirely on the fault of the propagandist instead of just the leaders, he believed that the leaders were being convinced by what they were writing and that caused the tension between the U.S. and the Soviet