Across
- 8. A major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
- 10. He became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement
- 11. groups compete in increases in military personnel and material
- 15. investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938
- 16. case that parents were allowed to educate their children outside of either the public school system or traditional private schools
- 17. A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
- 18. collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation
- 21. Term coined by Richard Nixon
- 22. decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment
Down
- 1. it was pressuring American leaders to reconsider its commitments
- 2. Supreme Court ruling that cemented students rights to free speech in public schools
- 3. aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam.
- 4. Was one of the co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
- 5. granted the right to vote to American citizens aged eighteen or older
- 6. case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional
- 7. Was one of the co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
- 9. 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States
- 12. describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War
- 13. Klux Klan born in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a private club for Confederate veterans.
- 14. a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States
- 19. also known as the Liberation of Saigon by North Vietnamese
- 20. She was known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott