Rise Of Communism

World War II led to the rise of communism, using the policy of containment Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy based their foreign policy off of the previous president. While all the Cold War presidents contributed to stopping the spread of communism, they all did it in their own way. Both Truman and Eisenhower used the policy of containment and different types of military uses to stop communism. Even though Kennedy used some of the same strategies as the previous presidents, his main way of stopping the spread of communism was through economic aid. The United States entered the Cold War to stop communism from spreading from the Soviet Union to other countries around the World. According to Edward Ayers in the American Anthem textbook, the policy
In President Kennedy’s University of Washington Speech, Kennedy said that his main goal was to work for peace, but he was willing to defend freedom with military use. So even though he wants to work peacefully there is always a military option he isn’t afraid to use. One of Kennedy’s main tactics to work towards stopping communism peacefully was Alliance for Progress. Billions of dollars were spent on this to build schools, hospitals, and roads in Latin America (Ayers 886). Kennedy did this to gain a better relationship with countries in Latin America because many of the relationships had been earlier destroyed. Another way Kennedy helped poorer nations gain stability was through the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps sent volunteers to help countries have more experienced workers (Ayers 886). The end goal of this was to get countries functioning on their own again. Even though Kennedy liked stopping communism peacefully, he did have to use military tactics. He was willing to send arms to any countries that needed help, but he can’t send them the will to use those arms (Kennedy). Kennedy thought it was important to help all countries resist communism. Flexible Response was one of his main military tactics, and this was used to make American Forces stronger so that there would be more options other than nuclear weapons (Ayers 886). This was a negotiation so that the US could get what they want. The bay of Pigs Invasion started on April 15, 1961. The invasion was a group of unmarked US bombers flown from Nicaragua by cuban exiles in attempt to destroy Cuba’s air force, but it ended up failing (Ayers 881). As a result the U.S. agreed to leave Cuba alone and get rid of the missiles in Turkey if the Soviets would remove missiles from Cuba (Ayers 881). The Bay of Pigs Invasion is an example of flexible