Kennedy, Johnson, & Vietnam

What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs?

• to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba

• to seize control of sugar production in Cuba

• to overthrow General Batista

• to remove USSR missiles from Cuba

What was the Bay of Pigs operation?

• US trained Cuban exiles in order to invade Cuba and overthrow the government

• US placed missiles in Turkey

• US placed missiles in Cuba

• US backed a coup in the USSR

Was the Bay of Pigs successful?

• Yes

• No

How did the Bay of Pigs invasion influence the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Castro asked the USSR for support and aid to fight the US, thus allowing them to place missiles in Cuba towards the US

• missiles were used to attack Cuba

• missiles were used to attack the US

• Kennedy asked Castro for assistance

What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allow?

• gave Johnson legal justification to invade Vietnam

• gave Kennedy legal justification to invade Cuba

What was the Domino Theory?

• If Vietnam fell to communism, other countries in SE Asia would also fall to communism

• A war game for invasion strategies in Vietnam

• The policy used to invade Cuba

What was the goal of Johnson's Great Society programs?

• to ensure that all American enjoy the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution

• to ensure that the economy could complete in the global marketplace

• to use propaganda to fight communism

• to eliminate corruption in government

What is Medicare?

• healthcare for Americans 65 and older

• healthcare for people in poverty

What is Medicaid?

• healthcare for Americans 65 and older

• healthcare for people in poverty

The assassination of JFK gave Johnson enough political capital to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT

• improve the nation's healthcare (Medicare and Medicaid)

• outlaw segregation in public facilities (Civil Rights Act of 1964)

• initiate a war on poverty (part of the Great Society)

• withdraw US forces in Vietnam