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