EOC STAAR US History-- VVHS

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Across
  1. 1. attitude leading to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act
  2. 5. false accusations of communism without significant evidence
  3. 7. first city to be targeted by an atomic bomb
  4. 8. easing of tensions with communist nations like China and the Soviet Union
  5. 10. increasing cultural and social division between parents and their teens
  6. 12. event setting off the space race
  7. 15. Assassinated Archduke whose death led to the prompting of WWI
  8. 19. federal legislation requiring that equal funding exist for both female and male educational and extra-curricular activities
  9. 20. massive population increase following WW2
  10. 24. Theory that if Vietnam fell to communism then other nations would follow
  11. 27. banned by the 24th amendment
  12. 28. founder of the NAACP, an organization that worked for African American political rights
  13. 29. Scandal involving a criminal coverup during Nixon's administration
  14. 31. type of publications that exaggerated news and helped lead to the start of the Spanish American War
  15. 33. amendment giving women suffrage
  16. 34. Act giving land at no cost to settlers willing to move west
Down
  1. 2. Progressive President who worked for conservation and trust busting (first initial and last name)
  2. 3. hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005 with severe flooding
  3. 4. amendment banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the US
  4. 6. one of the 3 Axis Powers in WW2
  5. 9. John F Kennedy's solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis
  6. 11. Allied invasion into France, gives Allies access to defeating Germany
  7. 13. developed the polio vaccine which stopped the spread of the disease
  8. 14. Published book that initiated US imperialism
  9. 16. insures depositor savings in banks
  10. 17. to limit the use of consumer goods to set aside for soldier use
  11. 18. Rockefeller and Carnegie controlled these type of corporations
  12. 21. Great Society healthcare program designed to assist economically disadvantage people
  13. 22. overall goal for Civil Rights movements
  14. 23. a total stop on the import of oil from the Middle East leading to gas shortages
  15. 25. Ford's original production car, affordable and reliable due to assembly line production
  16. 26. Sandra ___-first female Supreme Court justice appointed by Reagan
  17. 30. Couple found guilty during the Cold War of being Soviet spies
  18. 32. Sandra ___--first Hispanic female Supreme Court justice