- Communism influenced his relationship with leaders from another country.
At that time, he used containment of communism as one of his main platform during his presidency.
The soviet union intended to spread its influence to countries in South America. They did this by constructing several missiles on Caribbean which could possess a huge threat to united states. Kennedy managed to block this effort and dismantle all the missiles. This resulted in conflict between united states and the countries that located along that area.
- His effort to contain communism from spreading influence his government spending.
His administration had to invested a lot of money for providing troops to contain the spread of communism in various countries (most notably Vietnam )
