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Kennedy sent U.S. troops to Vietnam
Beginning in 1961, President Kennedy sent Special Forces troops to South Vietnam to advise the Army of the Republic of Vietnam on more effective ways to fight the communist forces. This revealed that the United States showed a more aggressive stand against the communists in Vietnam.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Kennedy ordered the Bay of Pigs Invasion: 1,500 American-trained Cubans, called Brigade 2506, landed on the inlet of that name.The goal was to spark a widespread popular uprising against Castro, but no such uprising occurred.After twenty months, Cuba released the captured exiles in exchange for a ransom of $53 million worth of food and medicine. It shows the conflict of U.S. and the communists in Cuba.
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Madman theory
The administration employed the "madman strategy" to force the North Vietnamese government to negotiate an end to the Vietnam War. In July 1969, according to a recently-declassified CIA report, President Nixon may have suggested to South Vietnamese President Thieu that the two paths he was considering were either a nuclear weapons option or setting up a coalition government. It led to the victory of the Vietnam War.
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Nixon Doctrine
Nixon Doctrine is a general statement of foreign policy under which the United States would not "undertake all the defense of the free nations.Rather than becoming directly involved in conflicts, the United States would provide military and economic aid to nations that were subject to insurgency or aggression, or that were otherwise vital to U.S. strategic interests, which provided a positive relationship between U.S. and countries.
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Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Nine American table-tennis players journeyed to China in 1971 to play matches against Chinese competitors. It lead to the diplomacy between President Nixon and Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
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