60's social issues
Across
- 6. Resistance to this military requirement grew during Vietnam
- 8. Movement concerned with pollution and the environment
- 9. A major Cold War conflict that escalated U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia
- 10. A social movement advocating women's equality that gained momentum in the 60s
- 13. Volunteer group founded by JFK to help developing nations
- 15. Site of the Free Speech Movement in 1964
- 17. What young men burned in protest of the Vietnam War
- 18. Home of the hippie movement in San Francisco
- 20. Feminist movement pushing for gender equality
- 24. Strategy used in Selma, Washington, and other cities
- 26. Protest movement targeting U.S. involvement in Vietnam
- 27. A key student organization in the civil rights movement
- 29. A political movement of young people pushing for civil rights and antiwar reforms
- 32. Nickname for antiwar activists in the 1960s
- 33. Interracial bus rides to protest segregated travel
- 34. Activist student group that opposed the Vietnam War
- 35. Lyndon Johnson’s domestic reform programs
- 39. Landmark court case that began legal battles over abortion
- 40. Author of *Silent Spring*, sparking the environmental movement
- 42. Anti-communist alliance in Southeast Asia
- 43. Hallucinogenic drug popularized by Timothy Leary
- 44. The 1965 civil rights march destination in Alabama
- 46. City where police used dogs and hoses on protestors in 1963
- 47. Iots broke out in this Los Angeles neighborhood in 1965
- 48. Public gathering focused on peace and nonviolence
- 49. Won the 1968 presidential election on a law-and-order platform
Down
- 1. First African American Supreme Court justice, appointed in 1967
- 2. This structure was erected in 1961 to divide East and West
- 3. Failed 1961 CIA invasion of Cuba
- 4. Antiwar candidate who challenged LBJ in the primaries
- 5. 1969 music festival symbolizing counterculture
- 7. University where National Guard shot student protesters in 1970
- 11. Supreme Court ruling that reinforced rights during police arrests
- 12. A slogan symbolizing racial pride and self-determination in the 1960s
- 14. City where police clashed with protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention
- 16. What women demanded in workplaces during the 1960s
- 19. Committee investigating alleged communism in the U.S.
- 21. Civil rights leader assassinated in 1968
- 22. Emerging political voice of this ethnic group in the 1960s
- 23. Radical Black rights group founded in Oakland in 1966
- 25. Group founded to promote women's rights in 1966
- 28. The movement to end racial segregation and discrimination
- 30. U.S. Special Forces often deployed in Vietnam
- 31. Great Society program for early childhood education
- 36. 1963 demonstration where MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech
- 37. Militant civil rights leader assassinated in 1965
- 38. Uprising in this Black neighborhood shocked America in 1965
- 41. Organization that legally challenged segregation laws
- 45. President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964