Across
- 2. 1964 law that ended segregation and banned job discrimination
- 4. What gave President Johnson the power to use force in Vietnam without Congress declaring war Tonkin ____
- 6. The major 1968 surprise attack by the Viet Cong shocked Americans during the Vietnam War
- 10. What 1962 event almost led to nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
- 11. Where did Dr. King give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963
- 12. The government said one thing about the Vietnam War, but reporters showed something else. This created a ___ ___
Down
- 1. Henry David Thoreau wrote “___ Disobedience” to argue that unfair laws should be broken
- 3. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s plan to end poverty and improve life for all Americans
- 5. What 1963 protests in an Alabama city showed violent racism on TV and shocked the nation
- 7. What civil rights group, founded in 1909, helped fight legal battles for equality
- 8. What group rode buses into the South to challenge segregation laws in the early 1960s
- 9. The Supreme Court ruled in ___ v. Board of Education that school segregation was unconstitutional
- 13. What failed invasion of Cuba by U.S.-backed forces embarrassed the Kennedy administration
- 14. Marches, speeches, sit-ins, and other acts done to speak out against unfairness is ___ offensive
