A Great Leader
"He was the new kind of political figure that people were looking for that year, dignified and gentlemanly and well-educated and intelligent, without the air of superior condescension." (2013, A+E Networks)
In 1961, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States of America. Yet with only a couple of years of being president, he had been assassinated while heading into Dallas, Texas. He was an amazing leader, father, and brother to all, and he represented equality and change.
In J.F.K.'s early life, he had been a congress man, and later on, a senator. As time passed, he became bored by the Massachusetts-specific issues on which he had to spend much of his time. Kennedy was more drawn to the international challenges posed by the Soviet Union's growing nuclear arsenal and the Cold War battle for the hearts and minds of Third World nations. In 1960, Kennedy decided to run for president and a year after, he won the election by a narrow win. Kennedy's greatest accomplishments during his time as president was foreign affairs. Capitalizing on the spirit of activism he had helped to ignite, Kennedy created the Peace Corps by executive order in 1961. By the end of the century, over 170,000 Peace Corps volunteers would serve in 135 countries. Also in 1961, Kennedy created the Alliance for Progress to foster greater economic ties with Latin America, in hopes of alleviating poverty and thwarting the spread of communism in the region.
Kennedy also looked over several international crises. On April 15, 1961, he authorized a covert mission to overthrow leftist Cuban leader Fidel Castro with a group of 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban refugees. In August 1961, to stem massive waves of emigration from Soviet-dominated East Germany to American ally West Germany via the divided city of Berlin, Khrushchev ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall, which became the foremost symbol of the Cold War. He'd took office in the midst of a recession, so he'd proposed sweeping
In 1961, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States of America. Yet with only a couple of years of being president, he had been assassinated while heading into Dallas, Texas. He was an amazing leader, father, and brother to all, and he represented equality and change.
In J.F.K.'s early life, he had been a congress man, and later on, a senator. As time passed, he became bored by the Massachusetts-specific issues on which he had to spend much of his time. Kennedy was more drawn to the international challenges posed by the Soviet Union's growing nuclear arsenal and the Cold War battle for the hearts and minds of Third World nations. In 1960, Kennedy decided to run for president and a year after, he won the election by a narrow win. Kennedy's greatest accomplishments during his time as president was foreign affairs. Capitalizing on the spirit of activism he had helped to ignite, Kennedy created the Peace Corps by executive order in 1961. By the end of the century, over 170,000 Peace Corps volunteers would serve in 135 countries. Also in 1961, Kennedy created the Alliance for Progress to foster greater economic ties with Latin America, in hopes of alleviating poverty and thwarting the spread of communism in the region.
Kennedy also looked over several international crises. On April 15, 1961, he authorized a covert mission to overthrow leftist Cuban leader Fidel Castro with a group of 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban refugees. In August 1961, to stem massive waves of emigration from Soviet-dominated East Germany to American ally West Germany via the divided city of Berlin, Khrushchev ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall, which became the foremost symbol of the Cold War. He'd took office in the midst of a recession, so he'd proposed sweeping