Cold War & Modern America

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Across
  1. 5. traded American missiles and weapons for hostages
  2. 10. radical liberal movement during Vietnam war, largely college students
  3. 11. communist dictatorship under Mao Zedong
  4. 12. easing of hostilities between countries, characterized Nixon's presidency
  5. 14. cut government spending budget, reduced inflation, cut taxes, steadies economy
  6. 16. prohibited segregation
  7. 18. scandal that caused Nixon to resign
  8. 20. relocation of a business to another country to lower manufacturing costs
  9. 21. christian and republican group that supported reagan
  10. 22. economy characterized by inflation, unemployment,and slow growth rates
  11. 23. allowed the government to monitor citizens in order to prevent terrorism
  12. 25. foreign policy that opposed detente; US would intervene in regional conflict when their security and/or interests were threatened
  13. 27. prohibited segregation in real estate
  14. 28. American policy to provide aid to anti-communist groups in order to "roll back" communism
Down
  1. 1. prohibited racial discrimination loopholes in the voting system
  2. 2. desegregation in education
  3. 3. allowed Johnson to defend against a Vietnamese attack by any means necessary (war without war)
  4. 4. limited president's ability to escalate military endeavors
  5. 6. independent countries that are heavily influenced by another country and/or their politics
  6. 7. distrust of government after Johnson's actions regarding Vietnam
  7. 8. North/viet kong and south divided over communism, became fully communist after American troops withdrew from Vietnam war
  8. 9. segregation or denial of financial services in neighborhoods
  9. 13. programs enacted by Lyndon B Johnson to create a fully desegregated America
  10. 15. nonviolent protest groups that confronted segregation and Jim crow
  11. 17. Nixon's process of removing all American troops from Vietnam to be replaced with Vietnamese troops
  12. 19. this, along with sit ins, was a popular form of nonviolent protest
  13. 24. white people moving out of areas that were becoming racially integrated
  14. 26. Northern and southern halves divided after stalemate in the Korean War