unit 9 american history

What was the goal and outcome of the Bay of Pigs invasion?

1400 exiles living in Guatemala were trained by the CIA to overthrow Castro of Cuba. There was a huge failure. There was great victory for Castro and the Soviet leader Khrushchev decided Kennedy was a weak president. Set stage for Cuban missile crisis.

What caused the Cuban mission crisis?

Soviet Union had been secretly sending nuclear missiles to Cuba

What was the outcome of the Cuban missile crisis?

Soviet missiles would be removed from Cuba if the U.S. would leave West Berlin

What was SEATO? how did it get the U.S. involved in Vietnam?

Its goal was to contain the spread of communism to south Vietnam and it provided economic  and military aid to the south Vietnamese government

Why was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution significant?

The resolution gave Johnson tremendous war powers. It allows him to commit U.S. troops to south Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam without ever going back to congress to ask for a declaration of war

What caused students to protest at Kent State in 1970?

They learned that Nixon had secretly approved bombing Cambodia and It stirred anti war activists, who argued that Nixon had widened the war and made the world a more dangerous place.

What was vietnamization?

U.S. forces would withdraw as ARVN troops assumed more combat duties and the hope was that with continued American aid behind the front lines, the ARVN would fight its aim to secure South Vietnam and this strategy did not work

What was the end result of the Vietnam conflict?

unleashing an intense bombing campaign that would especially target the supply lines and hide-outs in Cambodia. We also negotiated a peace agreement with North Vietnam.

What were the freedom riders protesting?

they were protesting segregation (separation) on inner-state travel

What was the goal of freedom summer?

 register the thousands of un-registered black voters in Mississippi

Draw a connection between the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

brown vs board got segregation out of schools and the civil rights act made it illegal everywhere else

Why was the voting rights act of 1965 necessary?

because even though the 15th amendment (African Americans can vote) have been ratified 95 years earlier many southern states found ways to block black people from voting