Unit 8 APUSH Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; collective security pact where an attack against one of the member nations would be viewed as an attack against them all; first U.S. military peacetime alliance; was the cause of the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance between the soviets and other eastern european nations
  2. 6. established in 1947 to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism, specifically Turkey and Greece
  3. 9. conference where Truman set the tone for how the U.S. would deal with the Soviets
  4. 12. an American initiative to aid western european nations in recovering from World War II
  5. 14. House Un-American Activities Committee; sparked the red scare by holding widely publicized hearings on alleged communist infiltration in the movie industry; group of Hollywood writers jailed for refusing to testify about past associations later blacklisted
  6. 15. segregation; socially- couldn't eat in white restaurants, public transportation, public places; politically- couldn't work for the city/government, less than 20% of eligible voters ended up voting; economically- limited jobs, black workers placed in the back, kept blacks in poverty
  7. 17. Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and was arrested and charged with violating local segregation in response MLK endorsed the Montgomery Bus Boycott which was inspired by similar boycotts; effects- the transit company neared bankruptcy, boycott catapulted MLK to national prominence
  8. 18. Truman domestic policy which provided major improvements to social security and minimum wage; was weakened because Cold War politics took priority; successes=National Housing Act which built 800k new low-income housing units
  9. 19. applied mass-production techniques to home-building projects on Long Island, NY; his developments of these homes were called Levittown's;
  10. 20. aka the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 which was a law providing benefits for veterans like government financed education; this increased earning power which in turn increased consumer spending and home ownership
Down
  1. 1. publicly claimed that he knew of members of the communist party working in the U.S. government which gained a lot of attention and fueled the red scare with red scare tactics
  2. 2. overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine and integrated schools
  3. 3. written by George F. Kennan and called for long term containment of Russian expansionist tendencies
  4. 5. marked a turning point in the American approach to the Cold War; encouraged the development of hydrogen bombs; increased taxes to increase defense; militarized the Cold War(originally just economic)
  5. 7. document of non-violent action written by MLK after he was imprisoned for a non-violent protest
  6. 8. Kennedy followed through on a CIA supported plan to lead an uprising in Cuba, which failed when Kennedy refused to send support
  7. 10. a young reverend and leading evangelical in the nation; said that "godless" communism was an inferior system, but democracy in America required belief in God and a constant struggle against sin
  8. 11. Space exploration race between America and the Soviets; Kennedy promised to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade; NASA was established
  9. 13. American forces would assist any nation in the middle east resisting communism
  10. 16. U.S. planes spotted Soviet built missiles in Cuba, so the U.S. imposed a quarantine on the island; ended through negotiation when Kennedy pledged not to invade Cuba & Kruschev promised to remove missiles from Cuba if the U.S. removed missiles from Turkey