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Across
  1. 1. Major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured this island from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, famously known for "Raising the Flag on ___ _____"
  2. 2. A black seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, who, in 1955, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do
  3. 6. Civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of people of color
  4. 7. Allowed the U.S. to lend weapons to allies
  5. 8. A senior officer of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European theaters of World War II
  6. 10. A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War I
  7. 13. A political theory which advocates class war and leads to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
  8. 15. Policy of making military power a primary goal of a nation and using that power to achieve national aims
  9. 16. U.S. president form 1945-1953
  10. 17. Leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule
Down
  1. 1. The idea to capture certain key islands, one after another, until Japan came within range of American bombers
  2. 3. The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920
  3. 4. The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality
  4. 5. A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
  5. 6. A feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness towards one's country
  6. 9. Political philosophy that advocates a strong nationalistic dictatorship
  7. 11. Meeting demands of a hostile power in order to avoid war
  8. 12. The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990
  9. 14. The notional barrier separating the former Soviet Union and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989
  10. 18. Compulsory recruitment for military service