Chapter 41 Questions

  1. What were the primary objectives of the FBI and what issues did it neglect before Robert Kennedy became the Attorney General? (p. 936)
  2. What threat did Soviet Premier Khrushchev make to President Kennedy in June 1961? (p. 938)
  3. What was the Berlin Wall and what was its purpose? (p. 939)
  4. Why did American forces enter Vietnam originally? (p. 940)
  5. How was the U.S. involved in Diem’s downfall? (p. 940)
  6. What was the final result of the Bay of Pigs invasion and why wasn’t it successful? (p. 941-942)
  7. What aggressive move were the Soviets making in Cuba in October 1962 and why? (p. 942)
  8. What agreement was reached between Kennedy and Khrushchev that ended the Cuban missile crisis? (p. 942)
  9. What happened to freedom riders in the South in 1960 and 1961? (p. 943)
  10. Why did Attorney General Robert Kennedy order the FBI to wiretap Martin Luther King Jr.’s phone in late 1963? (p. 943)
  11. What happened to James Meredith when he attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi? How did the Federal Government respond? (p. 943)
  12. What images of Birmingham did the world watch on T.V. in 1963? (p. 944)
  13. What were all of the terms of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? (p. 946)
  14. What was meant by President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” program? (p. 946)
  15. What was the significance of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution? (p. 948)
  16. What were the four legislative achievements of Johnson’s Great Society Program? (p. 948)
  17. What were the eventual successes of the Great Society Programs? (p. 949)
  18. What happened to 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964? (p. 949)
  19. What response did the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party receive at the Democratic National Convention? (p. 949)
  20. What were the provisions of the Voting Rights Act? (p. 950)
  21. What happened in Watts in 1965? Why? And what were the final results? (P.950)
  22. What new phase in the Civil Rights Movement did the Watts Riot mark? (p. 950)
  23. What did Pres. Johnson and his advisors believe would happen with escalation of American Involvement in Vietnam? Why were they wrong? (p. 952)
  24. By early 1968, why had Vietnam become such an unpopular war? (p. 954)
  25. What was the original purpose of “cointelpro?” (P, 954)
  26. What did the American Public increasingly demand after the Tet Offensives? (p. 955)
  27. How did the Chicago Police respond to the Protestors’ actions? (p. 956)
  28. Why did Johnson’s Great Society Programs begin to fail during the mid-1960’s? (p. 958)

Medgar Evers (Killed, 1963)James Meredith (1st Black student at Ole Miss)

Tet Offensive (1968)