1960-1968 Crossword Activity

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  1. 3. was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union
  2. 5. involved mechanically scanning images then transmitting those images onto a screen
  3. 9. a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability
  4. 11. set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65
  5. 13. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam
  6. 14. often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969
  7. 15. was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon
  8. 16. American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination
  9. 18. went full throttle in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to claim a leadership role in space and land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
  10. 19. a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life
  11. 20. a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba
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  1. 1. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans
  2. 2. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement
  3. 3. a act that outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
  4. 4. the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was a member of the Republican Party
  5. 6. the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963
  6. 7. “to strengthen the educational resources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in postsecondary and higher education”
  7. 8. A set of government programs, designed to help poor Americans, begun by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964
  8. 10. leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba
  9. 12. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement.
  10. 17. the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a communist state that spanned Eurasia from 1922 to 1991