Why did president Kennedy create the peace corps?

Answer 1

JFK's domestic plan was "The New Frontier". It gave international aid through the Peace Corps.

So, the Peace Corps was created to give international aid.

The international aid went to improve national defense, and also the space program.

He created it as a means of enabling American people to do good in the world to needy countries- to help charities and voluntary agencies working abroad or overseas to assist developing nations build up their infrastructure, in such a way as to ensure that this was done in a fair and egalitarian way.

The aim of the Peace Corps was (and remains) to try to secure the advancement of underdeveloped countries in a way whereby they learnt the importance of moving forward in a democratic, honest manner that enabled them to become secure and stable democracies that genuinely cared about the welfare of their people, and did not resort to violence, corruption or Dictatorship as a method of attaining Western standards of living.

Some of the 20th Century's worst dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung, did indeed achieve great technical, structural and agricultural advancement for their countries, but at the terrible price of also being genocidal tyrants who killed millions of people.

Kennedy wanted to avoid this happening- he knew that these advances could be achieved without having to resort to tyranny in the process. This is what the Peace Corps was for- to teach and educate this fact.

Answer 2

JFK's domestic plan was "The New Frontier". It gave international aid through the Peace Corps.

So, the Peace Corps was created to give international aid.

The international aid went to improve national defense, and also the space program.

He created it as a means of enabling American people to do good in the world to needy countries- to help charities and voluntary agencies working abroad or overseas to assist developing nations build up their infrastructure, in such a way as to ensure that this was done in a fair and egalitarian way.

The aim of the Peace Corps was (and remains) to try to secure the advancement of underdeveloped countries in a way whereby they learnt the importance of moving forward in a democratic, honest manner that enabled them to become secure and stable democracies that genuinely cared about the welfare of their people, and did not resort to violence, corruption or Dictatorship as a method of attaining Western standards of living.

Some of the 20th Century's worst dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung, did indeed achieve great technical, structural and agricultural advancement for their countries, but at the terrible price of also being genocidal tyrants who killed millions of people.

Kennedy wanted to avoid this happening- he knew that these advances could be achieved without having to resort to tyranny in the process. This is what the Peace Corps was for- to teach and educate this fact.