![]() ![]() In Latin America, Kennedy's Alliance for Progress aimed to promote human rights and foster economic development. To contain Communist expansion in Asia, Kennedy increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 a further escalation of the American role in the Vietnam War would take place after Kennedy's death. secretly withdrawing some missiles based in Italy and Turkey. In October 1962, the Kennedy administration learned that Soviet ballistic missiles had been deployed in Cuba the resulting Cuban Missile Crisis carried a risk of nuclear war, but ended in a compromise with the Soviets publicly withdrawing their missiles from Cuba and the U.S. ![]() In Cuba, a failed attempt was made in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. Kennedy's time in office was marked by Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union and Cuba. He was succeeded by Vice President Lyndon B. A Democrat from Massachusetts, he took office following the 1960 presidential election, in which he narrowly defeated Richard Nixon, the then- incumbent vice president. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States, began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963. ![]()
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