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  1. 2. The movement aiming to end racial discrimination and promote civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.
  2. 7. 1969 event marking the first manned moon landing.
  3. 8. This 1964 Act prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin.
  4. 10. An American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
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  1. 1. The U.S. conflict in Southeast Asia that escalated in the 1960s. (4 letters)
  2. 2. This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and the USSR close to nuclear war.
  3. 3. The first artificial Earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. (8 letters)
  4. 4. This wall was constructed in 1961, symbolizing the Cold War divide. (7, 4 letters)
  5. 5. This scandal led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
  6. 6. President who initiated the "Great Society" programs. (6 letters)
  7. 9. This 1947 doctrine aimed to contain the spread of communism. (9 letters)