1. The 1960’s
The Kennedy Years part 2

2. 1. What did the Soviet leader, Nikita Krushchev, decide to do in 1962, a year after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion?
2. How did we find out about it?
3. What did it look like Krushchev was trying to do?
4. What did Kennedy go on television to tell the American people about the situation?
5. What did Kennedy and his top advisers do to prepare for a potential war?

3. 6. What happened over the course of the next 13 days?
7. What role did the concept of MAD (mutually assured destruction) play in what would become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis?
8. What demand did Kennedy make of the Soviets?
9. What deal was made to avoid a nuclear war?
10. How did the Cuban Missile Crisis change people’s opinion of Kennedy?

4. 11. What were 2 steps toward peace taken by the countries’ two leaders after this event?
12. What happened on November 22nd, 1963?
13. What impact did this have on the country?
14. What did JFK’s death symbolize for many Americans?
15. Who was Lee Harvey Oswald and what happened to him?

5. 16. What had to happen immediately after the assassination?
17. What was the Warren Commission and what did they find?
18. Did everyone agree with its findings? What do some people believe to this day?
19. What happened to the legend of Kennedy and to many of his social programs that he was never able to get going?

6. 20. What was LBJ’s “Great Society” and what were 3 things it created?
21. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (part of the Great Society) do?
22. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 do four years later?