23-24 US Unit 6 Vocab Part 2

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Across
  1. 5. Established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy.
  2. 6. A skin infection that is often contracted in tropical environments.
  3. 7. A jellied gasoline used for bombs.
  4. 9. Discrepancy between the number of missiles the Soviet Union in the United States had.
  5. 10. The campaign program advocated by JFK in the 1960 election. He promised to revitalize the stagnant economy and enact reform legislation in education, health care, and civil rights.
  6. 14. A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons.
  7. 16. A barrier that existed from 1961 through 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in 1989.
  8. 17. An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
  9. 19. President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960s to provide greater social services for the poor and elderly.
  10. 20. A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
Down
  1. 1. A perceived difference between what is said and what is true.
  2. 2. A war crime committed by United States Army personnel on March 16, 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.
  3. 3. A policy that involves threatening the use of nuclear weapons to avoid a potential war.
  4. 4. A series of economic fights that occurred in the 1960s in Kentucky where the various caves in the state fought for the attention of tourists, with Mammoth Cave coming out on top.
  5. 8. A program in which the United States tried to help Latin American countries overcome poverty and other problems, money used to aid big business and the military.
  6. 11. A chemical defoliant used to clear Vietnamese jungles during the Vietnam war.
  7. 12. Strategy assuming that as long as two countries can destroy each other with nuclear weapons, they will be afraid to use them.
  8. 13. Volunteers who help third world nations and prevent the spread of communism by getting rid of poverty in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
  9. 15. An extension of the Arms Race, a race of firsts in space between USSR and US.
  10. 18. This attack on U.S. forces by Vietnamese communists in 1968 made Americans realize that the U.S. was not close to winning the war in Vietnam.