US History
Across
- 1. a main road, especially one connecting major towns or cities.
- 3. a period marked by a significant increase of births.
- 5. The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United
- 6. an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union.
- 7. created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations
- 8. the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
- 10. the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
- 12. an outlying part of a city or town
- 13. a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United State
- 15. former Cali Governor
- 16. Person who refused to give her seat up to a white man
Down
- 2. American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
- 4. a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating
- 9. , period of public fear and anxiety over the supposed rise of communist or socialist ideologies in a noncommunist state.
- 11. a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans.
- 14. Blockade from 24 June 1948 to 12 May 1949, cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany.