US History 2: Midterm Review

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Across
  1. 3. My Lai is a Vietnamese village known to Americans because it is where American soldiers committed a _______________ of 400-500 civilians.
  2. 6. Because there was a shortage of male workers due the war, many _____________ went to work in steel and other industries during the war years.
  3. 8. Stalin's response to the formation of NATO was is formation of the ________________________ (two words put together).
  4. 12. The GI Bill of Rights provided ______________ aid for veterans who wanted to attend college after WWII.
  5. 14. After the Korean War, Korea remained _____________ almost exactly where it had been before the war.
  6. 15. The __________________ were very difficult to fight against in the Vietnam war because of an extensive tunnel system, booby traps, and the ability to blend in.
Down
  1. 1. This was constructed between East and West Berlin by the Soviets to keep people from fleeing to the capitalist West(2 words combined).
  2. 2. The population explosion that followed soldiers returning home from the war and starting families (2 words combined).
  3. 3. The name given to the project which created the first nuclear bomb was _________________ (2 words combined).
  4. 4. The growth of the suburbs was a result of a severe _______________ of urban housing.
  5. 5. The Bay of Pigs invasion was the CIA's plan to overthrown Cuban communist leader, Fidel _________________.
  6. 7. Reckless and dangerous accusations against people saying they were communists during the American Red Scare was later termed ____________________.
  7. 9. The policy of stopping communism from spreading was called ___________________.
  8. 10. During WWII, the systematic murder to over 6 million Jews, gypsies, and other groups of people was called the ______________________.
  9. 11. The Truman Doctrine promised aid to any country who was fighting against ___________________.
  10. 13. The Berlin Airlift was the response to the Soviet _____________________.