Cold War and Social Change

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Across
  1. 2. This President called in Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce the Brown v Board ruling.
  2. 4. Though this amendment protected voting rights, Jim Crow laws found a way around it which necessitated new laws in the 60s
  3. 6. The name of the Lyndon Johnson program, similar to the New Deal, which sought to provide economic equality to Americans
  4. 8. This Senator from Wisconsin was committed to rooting out Communists, even if it meant accusing people without proof. An "ism" bearing his name is synonymous with "witch hunt"
  5. 9. The US government began to promote this after the launch of Sputnik which caused Americans to fear that they had fallen behind in their technological development
  6. 13. This is the person in the US Federal government who is in charge of approving congressional bills
  7. 14. This bill was passed over the President's veto to limit the powers of the president during war time. It was proposed in response to military action in the Vietnam War.
Down
  1. 1. This international organization supported the defense of South Korea against Communist invasion, though the majority of the troops sent came from the United States
  2. 3. The landmark court case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas ruled that THIS must be done to American schools
  3. 5. This concept guided American foreign policy throughout the Cold War. It said that if one country fell to communism, its neighbors were at risk of falling as well. This could lead to a chain reaction.
  4. 7. The name and year of the law passed by LBJ that ended discriminatory voting practices like poll taxes and literacy tests
  5. 10. This coincided with the Arms Race against the Soviet Union. The US and USSR competed to see who could develop the most advanced space exploration technology
  6. 11. Though this structure came down 3 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, its destruction foreshadowed the end of the Soviets and the Cold War
  7. 12. This form of containment involved sending money to democratic countries in Europe, helping them rebuild after WW2 and making communism less attractive.
  8. 15. This American foreign policy sought to keep Communism in the countries it already existed and prevent its spread to other countries