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| Kennedy's domestic reform plan that he campaigned in the 1960 election, which included education, health care, and civil rights reforms. |
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| Defense strategy of Kennedy's presidency that called for massive buildup of a variety of arms to give the nation many options when responding to Russia, instead of being limited to an all-out nuclear attack or nothing. |
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| Wall separating Eastern and Western Berlin that was constructed by the Soviets beginning in 1961. The wall separated the who halves of the city until 1989. |
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| Fortified villages designed to protect the peasantry from the Vietcong during the Vietnam War. |
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| A military fiasco, the plan had been for a group of CIA-trained Cuban refugees to bring about a counter-communist revolution. Without air support, the invading force was handily defeated as soon as they arrived. JFK took full responsibility for the disaster. |
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| Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) |
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| A massive Soviet arms buildup led to their placement of medium- and intermediate-range missiles that could target the US in Cuba. A massive confrontation where the US insisted the missiles be removed nearly led to apocalyptic nuclear war, but America and JFK scored a victory when Khrushchev backed down. |
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| JFK's handpicked group of advisors charged with responding to the Cuban missile crisis. |
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