History Test 9 Due Tuesday, May 7th

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Across
  1. 2. – period in which the United States and the Soviet Union threatened to use nuclear weapons against each other
  2. 4. – policy stating that the United States would use its power to stop the overthrow of a free country
  3. 5. – a law that guaranteed that civil rights of Native Americans could not be taken away by tribal governments
  4. 10. (NATO) group of countries that agreed to defend each other against a Communist invasion
  5. 16. – wall built by the Soviet Union that separated the Communist and the free parts of Berlin, Germany
  6. 22. of 1964- law that outlawed discrimination in employment and in public places; protected voting rights
  7. 24. bill that established plans for national security and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  8. 28. Amendment – Constitutional amendment stating that if the President dies while in office the vice president will become president
  9. 29. – conflict between communist North Vietnam and free South Vietnam in which the United States became involved
  10. 31. – 36th President became president after Kennedy’s death
  11. 32. – organization formed after World War II in which nations of the world work together to solve problems
  12. 33. first Black American to be an adviser to the President
  13. 35. – device implanted under the skin to control heart rhythms
  14. 36. protests by college students who rode busses throughout the South to protest segregation
  15. 40. – invented modern computer operated by a mouse
  16. 41. of 1957 – bill passed to protect the rights of Black Americans to vote in elections, first bill regarding civil rights since the reconstruction
  17. 42. – reversing the practice of separating people by skin color
  18. 48. - term used for the border that separated Communist countries from the free countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War
  19. 49. – Nasa’s first satellite
  20. 52. – U.S. plan which offered financial help to European countries that had been harmed during World War II
  21. 55. Missile crisis – situation caused by the Soviet Union’s shipping missiles to Cuba for possible use against the United States
  22. 56. – minister who worked to achieve civil rights
  23. 57. Amendment – constitutional amendment stating that no citizen would be charged a tax to cast a vote in an election
  24. 58. – the false belief that God does not exist
  25. 59. – System of highways that connect all parts of America
Down
  1. 1. – developed a vaccine to prevent polio
  2. 3. – developer of the ARPAnet
  3. 6. Station – first nuclear power plant built in the United States
  4. 7. – 35th president, youngest person elected president, assassinated in Dallas Texas
  5. 8. Leadership Conference – group formed to peacefully ensure civil rights
  6. 9. first American space
  7. 11. Intelligence Agency – security organization that gathers information from other countries and provides it to the President of the United States
  8. 12. first successful Nasa moon landing
  9. 13. War fought from 1950-1953 in which the United Nations especially the United States helped defend South Korea against Communist North Korea
  10. 14. - President Johnson’s plan to improve public education, conservation, poverty, crime, and civil rights
  11. 15. of 1968 – law that ensured equal housing rights for all Americans
  12. 17. of Topeka – Supreme Court case that ruled public schools should not be segregated
  13. 18. Amendment – a constitutional amendment which states that a person can serve in the office of president for only two terms
  14. 19. – seamstress who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
  15. 20. – manmade channel connecting the St Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
  16. 21. an agreement to stop fighting
  17. 23. the first American astronaut to orbit the earth
  18. 25. – Communist dictator of Cuba
  19. 26. – first Black American Supreme Court Justice
  20. 27. – peaceful protests by college students who sat at lunch counters and other businesses to protest segregation
  21. 30. – America’s first nuclear powered submarine
  22. 34. – organization that sends out young volunteers to help improve living conditions of poor people in nations around the world
  23. 37. – peaceful civil rights protest led by Martin Luther King Jr.
  24. 38. of 1965 – act requiring federal employees to supervise local elections to ensure that no person was kept from legally casting a vote
  25. 39. National Aeronautics and Space Administration started by Dwight D Eisenhower
  26. 43. – law that made low-interest loans available to servicemen
  27. 44. – first technology that allowed computers to communicate with each other in a network “ancestor” of today’s internet
  28. 45. – American Evangelist whose meetings were televised worldwide
  29. 46. – first man on the moon
  30. 47. – program in which the United States sent planes loaded with food and supplies to West Berlin, Germany
  31. 50. – virus that affects the nerves in your body
  32. 51. – act which provide medical care through health insurance for senior citizens
  33. 53. first satellite launched into space
  34. 54. – equal protection for freedoms and privileges
  35. 55. – the first Black American four star general in the history of the U.S. airforce