Mid 1959 CIA had set up counter revolutionaries in central Guatamala and in April 15, 1961 When they invaded it failed because JFK pulled air support at last minute. With the failure of Bay of Pigs, Castro says he’s a Marxist. Soviets come to an agreement. Soviets would dismantle their missile sites, US promise to never invade Cuba or overthrow Castro, and US would also silently remove their missiles in Turkey. The Long-term results were Khrushchev was weakened by polit buro in Russia. Eventually overthrown. Soviet foreign policy would be shifted permanently from direct intervention in the third world to exclusively sponsoring insurgency movements.

With the fall of Russian communism the US tightened its embargo on Cuba, it extended its embargo to include any US foreign subsidiaries and barring any ship which docked in Cuba and entered a US port for 180 days. 

was a defense strategy implemented by JFK in 1961 to address the Kennedy administration's skepticism of Dwight Eisenhowser New Look and its policy of massive retaliation. Flexible response calls for mutual deterence at strategic, tactical, and conventional levels, giving the US the capability to respond to aggression across the spectrum of warfare, not limited only to nuclear arms.

Russia is poking in different spots in the world to see where the US will get involved. After finding where the US doesn’t respond they will work hard in that place to win them over.

was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of WWII. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again. The phrase "equivalent of the Marshall Plan" is often used to describe a proposed large-scale rescue program.

is an enlightened and rational people who are fighting against the romanticism of nationalism and the constraints of nationalism that might arise. Religion is now privatized. A Liberal democracy and the rule of law and trying to create a secular government in regards to religion that mirrors the United States. Some Europeans are having concerns about Islam. Only take action where every nation has pre-agreed to act. If another nation forces them to do this, they will go in and act. The EU only acts where it can be more effective than the nation itself. The EU does not make all the nations conform under the same restriction. Every nation retains its shared values such as democracy, freedom, and justice and agree to protect and promote their heritage. The nations give up a little bit but not everything. Strives to minimize competition between the nations mainly economic competition. Parliament has around 785 members. The members are elected directly by the people and by how many people they have. The council- the executive function. Meets regularly and is comprised by the heads of states of member countries. All 28 members either send a prime minister and head of state. They decide and discuss issues and if it needs to be discussed they send it to parliament to debate on it. The commission- is the bureaucracy and a few years ago there were 20,000 and they make sure members are doing what they are supposed to do. Parliament- if parliament agrees on something being debated they propose a treaty and send it back to the council to vote on it. Court of justice- they adjudicate legal issues and dispute issues between the countries. 

Containment policy had been mainly in Europe but now because of the USSR Leap Frogging policy, containment had to be considered in any part of the world the Soviet Union saw an opportunity. Containment policy becomes somewhat obsolete. Instead of a USSR frontier along the iron curtain economic, military, and educational support could be sent to anywhere around the world Leap Frogging the borders separating socialism from capitalism. This new policy through US policies into turmoil as several administrations tried to confront this new threat. 

the development of the social democratic movement in the many different parts of the world greatly… later is based on the presumption that given the level of poverty and the destitution of income in most 3^rd world countries the people given the option would choose a socialistic economy. Social democracy recommends a blended economic system which would be tailored for each nations individual circumstances which would bring them to democracy. Division between the older professional diplomats who were responsible for Roosevelt good neighbor policy and a new generation of diplomats who were facing the unknown realities of a polarized cold war. 

Well-schooled. Attended the University of England and visited US. He is in Paris when in 1919 the Treaty of Versailles is being written. Asked to speak on Vietnamese nationalism and does the basis on Wilson 14 points that any country that want to be their own nation something. ICP Indo-Chinese Communist Party.

A row of dominos set up and knock over the first one what will happen to the last is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. 

- imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations.

Let our position be absolutely clear an attempt by any outside power to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.

1984 congress made all aid to Nicaraguan rebels illegal. This was aimed at the overt opposition. Was written to stop Reagan from helping the rebels. 

Secret deal CIA sells weapons to Iran in exchange for Israeli prisoners that are being held and the profits from the arms sell are being given to the Contras in Nicaragua.

Gorbachev's idea to opening up and this led to the criticism of soviets and lead to the revolutions of 1989-90 that led to nations breaking away from the soviets, the fall of the Berlin Wall, re-unification of Germany, and the soviet withdraw in third world countries such as Afghanistan. Soviet support and withdraw from Vietnam. Soviets quit subsidizing Cuban troops that were in Angola. End economic support of dictatorships in Ethiopia and Somalia and results to the collapse of those dictatorships. 

States that the English government views with favor the establishment of a national home for Jewish people. The civil rights of others won’t be affected and does not mean Arabs who also live in this region would be excluded from political power or practice. Becomes the basis of why the british support the establishment of jewish homeland and why Britain remains in the area until the establishment of Israel in 1948. 

Israel has a right to exist and live in peace with secure recognized boundaries. Calls on all nations in the region to change their position and the Arab nations say no.

“Right to Return”