Period 9 Reading Questions (Due May 2nd)

  1. What were the primary objectives of the FBI and what issues did it neglect before Robert Kennedy became the Attorney General?
  2. What was the Berlin Wall and what was its purpose?
  3. Why did American forces enter Vietnam originally?
  4. How was the U.S. involved in Diem’s downfall?
  5. What was the final result of the Bay of Pigs invasion and why wasn’t it successful?
  6. What agreement was reached between Kennedy and Khrushchev that ended the Cuban missile crisis?
  7. Why did Attorney General Robert Kennedy order the FBI to wiretap Martin Luther King Jr.’s phone in late 1963?
  8. What were all of the terms of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
  9. What was meant by President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” program?
  10. What was the significance of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
  11. What were the provisions of the Voting Rights Act? (p. 950)
  12. What happened in Watts in 1965? Why? And what were the final results?
  13. What new phase in the Civil Rights Movement did the Watts Riot mark?
  14. What did Pres. Johnson and his advisors believe would happen with escalation of American Involvement in Vietnam? Why were they wrong?
  15. By early 1968, why had Vietnam become such an unpopular war?
  16. What was the original purpose of “cointelpro?”
  17. What did the American Public increasingly demand after the Tet Offensives?
  18. How did the Chicago Police respond to the Protestors’ actions?
  19. What became of the German and Japanese economies by the 1970’s?
  20. How did Nixon plan to use Soviet-Chinese tension to his advantage?
  21. What were the terms of the ABM and SALT treaties between the USA and Soviet Union?
  22. What constitutional right did the Supreme Court argue was denied by Connecticut’s law against contraceptives?
  23. What rights did the Supreme Court ensure to the accused with the Miranda Case (1966)
  24. What were 5 men caught doing in the Watergate Complex? What did they have in their possession? Who did they work for?
  25. What actions did Egypt and Syria take against Israel in October 1973 and why? What did the U.S. do to assist Israel?
  26. What did OPEC do to oil prices after lifting the oil embargo in 1974?
  27. What steps did congress take against Nixon in late July 1974?
  28. Why were many voters attracted to Jimmy Carter in the Presidential Election of 1976?
  29. What problems with the economy existed during Pres. Carter’s administration?
  30. Why was there another oil shortage after Iran’s Shah was removed?

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