The Cold War - Foreign Policy - Eisenhower And Kennedy

Part I of Essay
Throughout the course of waging the Cold War, foreign policy, specifically Eisenhower's and Kennedy's remained similiar despite the fact that the war was a bipartisan undertaking. The overall policy by which the Cold War was defined was strikingly similar between both pres ....

Part II of Essay
.... the both felt the same toward the policy of containment, thus the pieces fell in place once this plan was determined by both presidents. The policy of containment was the policy of the time, it said that our main goal was to keep communism from spreading. It would be later seen that the focus of our efforts would be on the third world nations which were weak and thus possible to have their governments overthrown. Although both presidents agreed on the topic of containment, Kennedy was a little more forceful in his approach. This was seen throu ....