Unit 8 & 9 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 3. A major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba
  2. 5. Mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery
  3. 6. A United States prompted war after the 9-11 terrorist attack in order to remove al-Qaeda from the region
  4. 9. A period of economic, political and military tension between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991
  5. 12. A surprise attack on almost every provincial capital and American base in South Vietnam
  6. 13. A fortified barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989
  7. 14. The costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States
  8. 15. An armed conflict between a United States-led coalition force against the regime of Saddam Hussein from 2003 to 2011
  9. 16. The unequal distribution of income and opportunity between different groups in society
  10. 20. Push back against racism in policing and empower Black Americans
Down
  1. 1. War to weed out terrorist operatives and their supporters throughout the world
  2. 2. An illegal break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in 1972 by members of President Nixon's reelection campaign staff
  3. 4. An update of the 1965 Immigration Act and outlawed the hiring of undocumented immigrants
  4. 7. The federal economic polices of the Reagan administration
  5. 8. A set of domestic programs in the United States aiming to eliminate poverty and racial injustice
  6. 10. Fought between 1950 and 1953 between North Korea and its Soviet and Chinese allies and South Korea and United Nations' forces directed by the United States
  7. 11. When businesses begin to operate internationally
  8. 17. Activism that sought to secure full political, social, and economic rights for African Americans in the period from 1946 to 1968
  9. 18. Conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States
  10. 19. A method of coercion that utilizes or threatens to utilize violence in order to spread fear and thereby attain political or ideological goals