One of the major differences between President John F. Kennedy and President Dwight D. Eisenhower foreign policy was the use of conventional weapons. Eisenhower sought the idea of the “new look” where the US would be willing to use nuclear weapons to deter the Soviet Union expansion. Furthermore, Eisenhower was willing to provide a “nuclear umbrella”, which increased the nuclear warheads for the US but decrease the military budget. While Kennedy used organizations to influence and hesitation to use nuclear weapons as conventional weapons. The Cuban Missile Crisis is an example where Kennedy used the Navy to stop Soviet expansion and not nuclear weapons. Furthermore, the creation of organizations expanded the influence of the US because Kennedy
