John F Kennedy Research Paper Outline

Cameron Daniel
Mrs. McCathren
English 10
11 February 2016
Ich Bin ein Berliner John F Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. He was the second son of nine children, and his parents were Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. His father, Joseph Kennedy, was a wealthy man. John grew up wealthy, multimillionaire. The Kennedy’s moved to New York in 1927, and John and his siblings went to the Riverdale Country day school. John graduated in 1935 from the choate school in Wallingford, Connecticut. John wanted to go into either academics or journalism, so he went to Princeton University in the fall of 1935. He became deathly ill half way through his first semester at the university, so he spent the rest of the year recovering. After John became well again, he decided to attend Harvard University. He graduated from Harvard in 1940. John F Kennedy decided to run for a seat in the House of Representatives in1946. In 1952, he was in the United States senate. Kennedy decided that in

The United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were the main allied powers. They divided Germany into two, the east and the west. Kennedy took a trip to Austria in June of 1961 for a summit with the soviet leader. The summit was quite unsuccessful, and Kennedy failed to gain their trust. He went to discuss the division of Germany, but he did not succeed in his meeting because, “In the early morning hours of August 13, 1961, the people of East Berlin were awakened by the rumbling of heavy machinery barreling down their streets toward the line that divided the eastern and western parts of the city” (The Cold War in Berlin). Barbed wire was being hung dividing the line between east and West Berlin. Once the wall was constructed, over 260 people died attempting to get to West Berlin. Kennedy went to Berlin in 1963, to deliver his famous speech “Ich Bin ein Berliner” in hopes of the wall getting torn down, and freedom for all of