fairs. It was a quick, cheap, quiet way to depose hostile or unstable regimes. The CIA helped with third world governments that were thought to be too friendly or too radical. An example would be Guatemala. They had rooted a fragile democracy in 1944 which was a pointless because they were stripped of that by a United States sponsored invasion in 1954. The CIA spent 7 million dollars to train anti-government dissidents based in Honduras. The deaths were explained to the American people as “victims of communism.” In 1961 John F. Kennedy became the president of the United States. He shifted from aggressive containment to efforts at easing the Untied States and Soviet Union tensions. His main task when coming into office was confronting the communist threat. He stated, “the nation must move outside the home fortress, and….challenge the enemy in fields of our choosing.” Kennedy built up the nuclear weapons system between 1960 and 1962, 43 billion dollars to 56 billion dollars. Kennedy expanded Eisenhower’s policy of covert operations, deploying army’s elite special forces as a supplement to CIA covert operations in counterinsurgency battles against third world guerrillas. They could react quickly to brush fires were Soviets threatened Untied States interests. In October of 1962 there was a missile crisis. Cuba asked the Soviet Union for military help, so the Soviet Union sent missiles to Cuba aimed at the United States. Kennedy ordered to put up a blockade. He told the Soviets to withdraw their weapons and if they should fire missiles on the Untied States they should be prepared for a full retaliation. The Soviets retreated from Cuba along with their weapons and demanded that the United States remove their weapons from Turkey because it was just as close to them as Cuba is to the United States. JFK agreed and a nuclear war was adverted. In 1953 Communist Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam defeated the Fr...
