period 8

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Across
  1. 3. President of 1960
  2. 5. Nixon breaks into the Democratic National committee at watergate( basically spies on them)
  3. 8. U2 spy planes spot missile in cuba -> JFK initiates naval “quarante”
  4. 9. North korea invaded South starting the war United Nations join U.S and South korea
  5. 11. idea that the US should support countries or peoples threaten by communist forces
  6. 15. Organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)OPEC placed an embargo on the US when they supported Israel in the Arab-Israeli wars
  7. 17. 1950s, these facets of American society created a sense of homogeneity amongst Americans by promoting a conservative mindset.
  8. 18. A strategy of playing one country off another through negotiations and deals
  9. 19. Publicizing accusations of communist activity and disloyalty without any evidence to back up the claim
Down
  1. 1. Truman desegregated all US military forces
  2. 2. Ended ethnic quota act of the 1920s Immigration number vastly expanded
  3. 3. November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas Lyndon B Johnson takes over as president
  4. 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
  5. 6. Both men and women observed strict gender roles and complied with society's expectations.
  6. 7. theory that if one european country falls to communism all the small surrounding states will fall too
  7. 10. North Vietnam fired on two US military ships
  8. 12. A competition between US and USSR for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons during the Cold War.
  9. 13. to provide economic and military to help Europe in post war recovery
  10. 14. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was signed by many European and North American countries in 1949
  11. 16. 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.