HIST258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thích Quảng Đức, Ngo Dinh Diem, Cuban Missile Crisis
11 Sep 2016
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Lecture 10: the jfk administration, the lbj administration, post-colonial, cold war. Considerable work in the cold war and with the soviets. April 1961: kruschef truman"s doctrine , inherited bay of pigs. Cia-supported cuban exiles failed to retake cuba from fidel castro"s communist party. Pic right: soviet tanks at a check point. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country 1961. National aeronautics and space administration [nasa] funding has been between 4. 5% to 0. 5% of the national budget. Lbj and jacqueline kennedy, 22 november 1963, on air force one. Increase prioritizing social reform by assaulting poverty, uplifting minorities, and increasing healthcare. Lyndon baines johnson (lbj): 1908, d. 1973. The policy of containment and the domino effect: Containment and the domino effect theory were central tenets of us foreign policy in the 1960s. Ho chi minh, head of the vietminh, head of the democratic republic of vietnam [north]
