Standard 21 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Made many Americans sympathetic toward enduring racial segregation
  2. 5. Leader of Civil Rights Movement; advocated civil disobedience
  3. 8. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; early non-violent tactics and everyone welcome; later radical tactics and only blacks
  4. 9. Southern Christian Leadership Conference; founded by MLK Jr.; non-violent and everyone welcome to join
  5. 12. Provided health care assistance to the poor
  6. 15. Great Society program intending to eliminate the national poverty rate by improving conditions
  7. 18. majority socially conservative Americans; elected Nixon as Pres.
  8. 19. (11/1955-4/1975) Cold War Proxy War; war between Democratic South Vietnam with U.S. assistance and the communist-backed Vietcong of North Vietnam
  9. 20. Guaranteed health insurance to Americans 65 and older
  10. 22. Amendment Abolished the poll tax
  11. 23. Year of social and political turmoil for the United States
  12. 24. Jr (April, 1968) Caused riots in over 100 cities; killed by James Earl Ray
  13. 25. First Presidential debates ever shown on TV
  14. 26. Gave Pres. LBJ authority to use military force without a declaration of war
  15. 30. Nonviolent group supporting the rights of farmworkers; mainly Filipino and Hispanic workers
  16. 31. Protested racial segregation on city busses; spurred by Rosa Parks’ arrest
  17. 34. SNCC members sat at segregated lunch counters; encouraged sit-ins all across the South
  18. 35. Integrated interstate bus rides into segregated parts of America
  19. 36. 35th President from 1961 until assassination in 1963; Democrat from Massachusetts
  20. 37. Outlawed literacy tests or poll taxes for would-be voters in the United States.
  21. 38. Nov, 1963 Dallas, TX; killed by Lee Harvey Oswald; impacted future civil rights policies
Down
  1. 1. LBJ’s program that would give all Americans a better standard of living and opportunities regardless of background
  2. 2. Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender; allowed all citizens to enter into any public facility; part of “Great Society” program
  3. 4. September 13, 1969; Apollo 11 became first manned U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon
  4. 6. Aug, 1963; speech given in front of 250,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. during the March on Washington
  5. 7. Founder and leader of the United Farm Workers Movement
  6. 10. Social movement by many different groups to gain equal civil rights across America
  7. 11. Written by MLK Jr.; defense of non-violent methods to attack racism
  8. 13. (Aug, 1968) Police beat antiwar protesters on live TV
  9. 14. (June, 1968) He was running for president; killed by Sirhan Sirhan on same night he won California and South Dakota primaries
  10. 16. Eight month long Vietcong campaign to drive out Americans (1968)
  11. 17. Broadcasts allowed people in their homes to see what was happening; led to Anti-Vietnam War movement
  12. 21. VP who became president after assassination of JFK
  13. 27. Revolution led by Fidel Castro to overthrow Cuban gov’t.
  14. 28. Failed attempt by CIA trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba’s Bay of Pigs
  15. 29. Belief that if one country in a region came under communist control, the surrounding countries would as well
  16. 32. Crisis (1962) Soviets built missile sites in Cuba; threatened U.S. national security forcing Kennedy to blockade Cuba
  17. 33. 1964 project to register African-American Mississippi voters