John F Kennedy Inagrial Address Essay

In 1961 America was facing a situation that it had never faced before; being less advanced than other world powers technologically, allowing them to pose a deadly threat against the American people. Since 1947 America had been in The Cold War against the Soviet Union, each country growing stronger in order to compete with the other. Due to the tension between America and the Soviets, and the fact that the 1960 election was very close, there was a lot of distress among the American people about their new leader.In his inagrial address, Kennedy is faced with the task to prove his ligitmacy as a leader to the American public. During his speech, Kennedy addresses the entire world while also specifically acknowledging certain countries and groups of people who are important to America. He does this in order to unite the country and the world against America's adversaries. In President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech he stands up in a time of conflict to express the nation’s need for unity in order to defend the people of the world. Kennedy had just

JFK says, “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” This chiasmus emphasizes the need for unity among the countries of the world in order to improve the status of human rights. Kennedy shows that it is a time to unite as a country and as a world, it is an opportunity to defend freedom across the globe and the world needs to provide an adequate response to the issues around the world. At this time, so many world powers were advancing so much, and Kennedy proposes that instead of creating new technology for the use of destruction, countries should come together, combining their new technologies in order to make the world a better