Kennedy & Johnson(Final Review)

How did the Bay of Pigs invasion weaken the popularity of JFK?

• Other countries thought that we were weak because we had someone else fight a battle that we should have fought.
• U.S. citizens were angry that their president had failed at destroying our enemies.
• JFK's failure to intervene in Cuba was seen as a sign of weakness

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC)?

• USSR concerned with US missiles in Turkey, so Khrushchev (Leader of the USSR) decided to put SAMs in Cuba.
• JFK ordered the invasion of Cuba by Cuban Rebel Forces

Who was the leader of Cuba during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Fidel Castro
• Fulgencio Batista
• Francisco Franco
• Ho Chi Minh

When and where was JFK assassinated?

• September 11th, 1963 in Montgomery, Alabama
• April 15,1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana
• November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
• September 7, 1945 in Houston, Texas

Who assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?

• James Earl Ray
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Jack Ruby
• Lee Harvey Oswald

Which statement best describes the Cuban Missile Crisis? 

• The Soviets let the Cuban government borrow their missiles to scare the US. 
• US planes spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba and were worried they would be launched to attack the US. 
• The US gave Cuba missiles to use against the Soviets. 
• Cuba threatened to place an embargo on the US.

Kennedy's solution to the Soviets trying to send missiles into Cuba was:

• To send Air Force jets over Cuba
• To create a hotline with the Soviets
• To lead the Bay of Pigs invasion
• To blockade (quarantine) the island

This was the plan to train exiled Cubans to overthrow Fidel Castro

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cubanization
• Bay of Pigs
• Covert Operation X

The city of Berlin was completely located in which country?

• East Germany
• West Germany
• North Vietnam
• South Vietnam

Johnson's domestic program was called

• New Deal
• Square Deal
• Welfare
• Great Society