... Sr. was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain. This prestigious post opened new social avenues to the Kennedy family, and gave them front-row seats for the drama of World War II's approach. In the European theater, Adolf Hitler was preparing to occupy Austria and Czechoslovakia, and the British government was pursuing a policy of appeasement, designed to stave off war at all ... useful buffer against Soviet inroads in the western hemisphere. At the same time, a thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations after the Cuban Missile Crisis opened the way for negotiations between the two superpowers on the ...

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