Help please (60's)?

Question

How did concern over nuclear weapons influence Kennedy's foreign policy??

Thanks so MUCH!

Answer 1

Cuban missile crisis not as simple as Alfred makes it.  The USSR was starting to build the missile site, when the crisis began.   Kennedy moved naval ships toward the missile-site-to-be.  Russia's Kruschev decided to back down, though the US still had nuclear missiles in Turkey - that could endanger all of the USSR.  

K took a lot of heat for this, and as a result had to resign - a liberal, reforming ruler was replaced by a nasty conservative one, Breznev.  K had been trying to make Russia more like a Western country, but as a result of the crisis, was replaced by someone determined on taking a hard-line with the US - and so, Communism and the COld war were prolonged.



The crisis did not affect our relations with Cuba, as it was between Russia and the US.

Answer 2

WW3 almost started with mother Russia! Cuban Missile Crisis. The USSR was shipping Nuclear Missiles to Cuba, Kennedy saw this and basically said that if you do not get that **** outta here we are going to bomb you back to the stone age. Kind of the reason we do not deal with Cuba.