Cold War and Civil RIghts Crossword
Across
- 5. Little Rock ________: Students in Little Rock Arkansas who were the first to go to a desegregated high school in Arkansas, needed support from National Guard troops due to protests against them
- 8. Communist leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War
- 9. Military defense alliance in Southeast Asia aimed at stopping the spread of communism
- 10. Doctrine that promised any kind of aid needed to any country that was fighting communist aggression, specifically in the middle East
- 11. War that occured between the US and Vietnamese rebels supported by China and the Soviet Union
- 12. War in which the United States and the Soviet Union choose sides and supply them with resources. This is how the cold war was fought without the two directly going to war
- 13. Peaceful protest of segregation in which typically African-American protesters sat in whites only sections of restaurants and refused to move
Down
- 1. __________ World Country: referred to countries that were still developing, often the US or USSR got involved in helping them nation build
- 2. ______________ rides: a series of bus trips taken by civil rights activists to protest segregation
- 3. The theory that if one country in a region falls to communism, its neighbors would as well
- 4. Leader of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War backed by he US
- 6. ___________Action:An operation by the United States in which it operates in secret, usually to interfere in another countries domestic policies
- 7. _____________ Marshall: First African American Supreme Court justice
- 9. African-American Civil Rights organization whose first president was Martin Luther King Jr