Korea, Vietnam, Space Race and JFK

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Across
  1. 4. Communist Gorillas in Vietnam
  2. 6. United State Intelligence
  3. 8. the United States launched its own satellite, Explorer I, designed by the U.S. Army under the direction of rocket scientist
  4. 10. became the first American to orbit Earth.
  5. 12. a federal agency dedicated to space exploration (Acronym)
  6. 13. made the bold, public claim that the U.S. would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade
  7. 17. the U.S. effort to send a man into space
  8. 18. the first American in space (though not in orbit).
  9. 20. the first lunar landing attempt
  10. 21. The Southeast Asian nations were like a row of dominos, he said. The fall of one to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors
  11. 23. NASA’s lunar landing program
Down
  1. 1. President who succeeded JFK
  2. 2. became the first person to orbit Earth, traveling in the capsule-like spacecraft Vostok 1
  3. 3. the US and France set up an anti-Communist government under the leadership of this person.
  4. 5. It allowed for US troops to gradually pull out of Vietnam, while the south increased their combat role
  5. 7. Code name for the group that would use orbiting satellites to gather intelligence on the Soviet Union and its allies.
  6. 9. served to symbolize the gradual improvement of U.S.-Soviet relations in the late Cold War era
  7. 11. spy agency whose existence was kept classified until the early 1990s
  8. 14. government or military spying/stealing of secrets
  9. 15. a line that crosses Korea at 38 degrees north latitude
  10. 16. the first space probe to hit the moon
  11. 19. the first crewed space mission to orbit the moon
  12. 22. Leader of the North Vietnamese