the 60s

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Across
  1. 1. first black man to be appointed justice on the Supreme Court
  2. 2. Kennedy's failed invasion of Cuba
  3. 7. Supreme Court ruling that decided that segregation was legal under "separate but equal"
  4. 8. African American students in Little Rock who Eisenhower had to have escorted to school by the 101st Airborne
  5. 12. Civil Rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person
  6. 16. Governor of Arkansas who favored segregation and used the National Guard to stop integration
  7. 17. militant group of black men who would recruit from gangs to protect black businesses, neighborhoods, and monitor the police as a deterrent to police brutality
  8. 18. weapon designed to burn its victims without being put out by water
  9. 19. protests AIMed at achieving political equality for Native Americans and recognition for the cultural heritage
  10. 22. Secretary of State for Nixon, negotiated end of the Vietnam War and advised that the U.S. form strategic relationships with any power they thought would benefit U.S. hegemony
  11. 23. people in the flower power movement
  12. 25. the guerrilla force in South Vietnam which the U.S. and the South Vietnamese government fought
  13. 27. government program designed in provide coverage to senior citizens
  14. 29. law prohibiting discrimination against women in education
  15. 31. leader of communist North Vietnam
  16. 34. country where Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson sent military advisors, then troops, to contain the threat of communism from spreading to the South
  17. 36. law that required organizations to take positive steps to increase the number of minorities in those organizations
  18. 37. President who had a vision for the U.S. to become a Great Society without poverty or disease
  19. 38. gave Pres. Johnson authority to send troops into Vietnam after the attacks on the U.S.S. Maddox and Turner Joy
  20. 39. lowest point during the Cold War, closest the U.S. and U.S.S.R. came to nuclear war for trying to station missiles near the U.S.
Down
  1. 1. Vietcong attack on Vietnam Lunar New Year which contradicted the narrative that the U.S. was winning the war
  2. 3. Nixon's plan to release combat responsibility to the Vietnamese people as the U.S. began to withdraw from the country
  3. 4. form of protest where black and white people would ride integrated buses throughout the South in defiance to Jim Crown bus laws
  4. 5. Supreme Court case that overruled Plessy decision and made segregation in public schools illegal
  5. 6. form of protest where the activist chooses to actively disobey a law because it is unjust
  6. 9. protesters against the War in Vietnam
  7. 10. Civil Rights leader, wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail, advocated non-violent direct action to gain political and economic equality under the laws of the U.S.
  8. 11. President of the United States during the most contentious moment of the Cold War
  9. 13. struggle for equal rights for African Americans
  10. 14. dictator of Communist Cuba
  11. 15. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who wrote the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board
  12. 20. gave 18-yea-olds the right to vote
  13. 21. built in 1961, this encircled West Berlin until its fall in 1989
  14. 24. leader of the Chicano movement with Cesar Chavez, famous for the phrase "Si se puede"
  15. 26. laws and a way of life that treated African Americans as inferior in the South
  16. 28. laws that were meant to make discrimination illegal and strengthen protections for voting rights
  17. 30. President that facilitate the Watergate break in and Vietnamization
  18. 32. chemical used to burn down jungle to help bombers find their targets
  19. 33. 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched after a white woman lied to her husband and accused the boy of wolf-whistling at her
  20. 35. spokesperson for the Nation of Islam who believe that black people should achieve liberation by any means necessary