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Foreign Policy 1960’s The Foreign Policy in the 1960’s was a very scary time. During the1960’s the United States was at war with Vietnam other countries were making and designing nuclear weapons and the United States was having problems with Cuba and Fidel Castro. This is the time when we start making enemies and getting countries to really hate the United States.

The Vietnam War was a terrible war it was fought to stop the spread of communism into other countries and the United States. On April 7, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson gave his first speech about the war he tried to get the support of the people to keep the war going and to make a deal to make the war go more smooth. Early 1964 Johnson had his staff write a resolution that would let him expand the war that he said was necessary. Later in August of 1964 a US military ship was targeted by the Vietnamese then just two days later another attack took place that’s what really got president Johnson mad. That’s when the Gulf of Tonkin resolution took place it went through congress in forty minutes. In July of 1965 a general in Vietnam asked for an additional 175,000 to 200,000 troops. Johnson only sent 50,000 soldiers because it was too difficult for him to send so many young men to the war. March 31, 1968 Johnson announced over the television that he did not want re elected but he would instead hold peace talks to try to end the war in Vietnam. Also during the 1960’s the United States was having problems with the Cuba. What happened was Cuba wanted the United States to leave Guantanamo Bay. They went as far as shutting off the freshwater supply to Guantanamo Bay to try to get the United States to leave. The United States responded by building there own freshwater plant. When word got to President Johnson he ordered American spy planes to fly over Cuba to inspect the country to see what they were up to. Fidel Castro said that he would shoot at the American planes until they were destroyed. President Johnson responded saying if you shoot any of the United States planes you would deeply regret doing it. During our aerial inspection we found nuclear missiles in Cuba the missiles where put there by the Russians. We had the missiles removed and taken back to Russia where the weapons came from.



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