"During four futile years, the administration which we shall replace has distorted and lost that faith. It has talked

and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom. Now, failures cement the wall of shame in Berlin. Failures

blot the sands of shame at the Bay of Pigs. Failures mark the slow death of freedom in Laos. Failures infest the

jungles of Vietnam. And failures haunt the houses of our once great alliances and undermine the greatest

bulwark ever erected by free nations - the NATO community Because of this administration we are tonight a

world divided - we are a Nation becalmed.

From Barry Goldwater's 1964 speech at the 28th Republican National Convention, accepting the nomination for

president.

Goldwater's speech is very critical of mistakes made by the previous presidential administration of

Goldwater's speech was very critical of mistakes made by the previous presidential administration of flexible-response foreign policy.

Explanation:

Kennedy's administration achieved peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis and refrained from further escalation of the Berlin Crisis of 1961. He helped to create created the Alliance for Progress, the Peace Corps, Food for Peace, and the Agency for International Development. However, Kennedy's policies also led to implementing the Bay of Pigs invasion and escalation of the Vietnam War.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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