Across
- 2. program under LBJ that offered work-training programs for unemployed youth
- 4. program that trains and send volunteers to poor nations around the world to work as educators, health care, agricultural, and other jobs
- 6. 36th President; he took office after the assassination of JFK
- 8. North Korean capture of the Pueblo, a Navy spy ship, off the coast of communist North Korea
- 9. the years when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; under his leadership, controversial decisions greatly extended individual rights and freedoms
- 13. several days where the US teetered on the brink of nuclear war with the USSR
- 14. a health care program for people over the age of 65
- 16. set of programs introduced by President Johnson to fight poverty
- 17. LBJs philosophy that revolutions in Latin America were not just local concerns when "the object is the establishment of a Communist dictatorship"
Down
- 1. 35th President; youngest person and first Roman Catholic to be elected
- 3. the term for the domestic programs of the Johnson administration
- 5. the accused assassin of President Kennedy
- 7. nickname given to President Kennedy's plans for changing the nation
- 10. authorization to act
- 11. strategy towards nuclear tensions that involved strengthening US forces so the nation would have options other than nuclear weapons
- 12. communist leader of Cuba, he helped overthrow the Cuban government in 1959 and seized control of the country
- 15. an invasion in Cuba by exiles trying to overthrow the socialist government; the effort was funded by the US government