Immy's Period 6-8 APUSH Assignment #2

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Across
  1. 5. conflict between the United States and Spain that effectively ended Spain's role as a colonial power in the New World.
  2. 8. 1954 court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
  3. 9. 1950's Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in the state department but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential
  4. 10. 1945 meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt
  5. 11. first woman supreme court justice. appointed by Reagan
  6. 14. Who said “Read my lips. No new taxes.”
  7. 17. economic downturn that started with the stock market crash of 1929
  8. 20. FDR's plan to revitalize America and end the Great Depression along as address other issues in America
  9. 21. only president impeached in the 20th century
  10. 22. A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs
Down
  1. 1. Strategic Defense Initiative; new weapon systems called for by President Reagan to destroy soviet missiles from space
  2. 2. the president who implemented “Don’t ask, don’t tell”
  3. 3. 1947 policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey
  4. 4. this war started after Germany kept sinking American ships
  5. 6. extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force
  6. 7. president who shares a name with a stuffed animal bear
  7. 12. promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism,
  8. 13. second global war
  9. 15. The US got involved in this war because they wanted to contain the spread of communism and they did not want North Korea to have full control over the Korean Peninsula.
  10. 16. established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, etc
  11. 18. a term used to describe the sensationalist newspaper writings of the time of the Spanish American war.
  12. 19. a political scandal in the US; US secretly sold arms to Iran in an attempt to buy freedom for American hostages and to fund Nicaraguan contras