Across
- 1. a U.S. president was assassinated in an open top car
- 3. scandal a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon
- 5. v.s. board a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. laws for segregation in public schools are unconstitutional
- 8. harbor japan attacked this naval base
- 10. computers starting in the 1970s with the invention of the microprocessor and culminating in the widespread adoption of PCs in homes and businesses.
- 15. nations creation of an organization united 193 countries/nations
- 16. first satellite launch
- 18. movement a social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful environmental practices
- 19. doctrine a foreign policy to make the U.S. to support nations threatened by authoritarian force
- 21. of pigs a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961
Down
- 2. war an Armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula that divided a nation
- 4. naval battle in which japan lost and has to this day not recovered
- 6. war 2 German invasion of france
- 7. pact a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet states
- 9. boy secret bomb that ended the war by turning a city into rubble
- 11. crisis Oil Embargo acutely strained a US economy that had grown increasingly dependent on foreign oil.
- 12. rights act a piece of federal legislation in the U.S. that outlaws discrimination in voting.
- 13. rights act a act that outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels.
- 14. the beach where the liberation of france started
- 17. bus boycott boycott of a bus company after a passenger was arrested for not giving up their seat
- 20. landing The Apollo 11 mission