Across
- 1. a senator who was made famous by seeking out communist in the US
- 7. won the 1968 and 1972 election. Resigned after the Watergate scandal. Vietnamization the Vietnam war.
- 8. won the election of 1960 and beat Nixon. He was the youngest president elected and first Roman Catholic president
- 10. name of SALT. the US and the USSR on limiting nuclear weapons
- 14. author of The Feminine Mystique
- 15. president after Truman and signed the National Defense Education Act and started NASA
Down
- 2. started in Greensboro, NC when students sat in public places to protest segregation
- 3. leader of the SCLC, followed the Thoreau’s writings, and wanted peaceful integration of people
- 4. to help Greece and Turkey and keep them away from the temptations of communism
- 5. relaxed tensions between the US and the USSR during Nixon’s presidency
- 6. JFK’s plan to help the economies and the relationships between the US and Latin America
- 9. when the North Koreans attached the South Koreans. The United Nations stepped in with mostly US supplies and troops.
- 11. prosperity, baby boom, and the growth of suburbs all were what
- 12. the one who made the policy of containment popular
- 13. the term used to describe Joseph McCarthy methods and his “witch hunt”