JFK

· J.F. Kennedy comes from a 9-children family, his father was a politician and multimillionaire; he studied the best-known universities and during WWII was a soldier in US NAVY (he rescued his crew from Jappanneese); he begun his political career in congress as a strict anticommunist and supporter of working class; he was elected in the presidential office in November 1960
· he introduced some important social-political changes, e.g. Food stamp program (distribute food to poor people from state supplies), Area development act (unemployed people had an opportunity to build needed buildings and new industrial buildings) and Alliance for progress (USA would support the industrial growth in Latin America)
· JFK was assasinated on November 22 in 1963 in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald

Vietnam war
· Vietnam war was actually the war between USA and Soviet Union – Soviet Union wanted to spread its communist power and USA was afraid of a “domino theory” (if Vietnam became communist, surrounding countries would become communist too)
· in 1949 South Vietnam was formed by French and a guerrila war between North and South begun; USA started to supply French, but only with non-military arsenal; in 1954 Vietcong under a leadership of communist Ho Chi Minh surrounded French in the South with a president N. D. Diem > negotiations in Geneva continued; in 60’s USA sent advisers in South Vietnam (Johnson and JFK were both fond of the war); the struggles begun in 1964 and continued until 1975
· the ground fights were unsuccesful for American soldiers because of the difficult landscape and that’s why USA decided to begin the night bomb raids with huge B-52s
· there were many demonstrations held in USA against the war (mainly in years 67-68) because it costed 25 billion $ a year and several lives
· finally Vietnam was divided by Geneva on 17th paralel