US Final

2. – A military alliance formed in 1949 between the United States, Canada, and Western European nations for mutual defense.
5. – A series of programs and reforms created by President Franklin Roosevelt to help Americans recover from the Great Depression.
8. – The large increase in births in the United States following World War II.
10. – A restriction on oil sales that caused fuel shortages and rising gas prices in the 1970s.
11. – A powerful weapon using nuclear energy that the United States dropped on Japan during World War II.
13. – __________ camps were where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated and confined during World War II.
14. – A political scandal involving President Richard Nixon and a break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters.
15. This diplomacy used used _______________exchanges in the 1970s to improve relations between the United States and China.
16. – The United States policy of stopping the spread of communism during the Cold War.

1. – Shantytowns built by homeless Americans during the Great Depression and named after President Herbert Hoover.
3. – Crowded and poorly maintained apartment buildings that housed many low-income immigrants and workers in growing cities.
4. – A period of political tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
6. – A barrier built by East Germany to divide East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
7. – Organized refusals to buy or use goods and services as a form of protest.
8. – _____________ Schools were created to force Native American children to adopt American culture and abandon their traditional languages and customs.
9. – The _________ theory was the belief that if one country became communist, nearby countries would soon follow.
12. – The Great __________ was the movement of Black Americans from the rural South to northern and western cities