Across
- 3. President of 1960
- 5. Nixon breaks into the Democratic National committee at watergate( basically spies on them)
- 8. U2 spy planes spot missile in cuba -> JFK initiates naval “quarante”
- 9. North korea invaded South starting the war United Nations join U.S and South korea
- 11. idea that the US should support countries or peoples threaten by communist forces
- 15. Organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)OPEC placed an embargo on the US when they supported Israel in the Arab-Israeli wars
- 17. 1950s, these facets of American society created a sense of homogeneity amongst Americans by promoting a conservative mindset.
- 18. A strategy of playing one country off another through negotiations and deals
- 19. Publicizing accusations of communist activity and disloyalty without any evidence to back up the claim
Down
- 1. Truman desegregated all US military forces
- 2. Ended ethnic quota act of the 1920s Immigration number vastly expanded
- 3. November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas Lyndon B Johnson takes over as president
- 4. The US tries to protect the Shah of Iran from being overthrown and it makes some people very mad because no one likes the Shah
- 6. Both men and women observed strict gender roles and complied with society's expectations.
- 7. theory that if one european country falls to communism all the small surrounding states will fall too
- 10. North Vietnam fired on two US military ships
- 12. A competition between US and USSR for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons during the Cold War.
- 13. to provide economic and military to help Europe in post war recovery
- 14. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was signed by many European and North American countries in 1949
- 16. 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
