Period 8 Crossword

2. US pledged economic and military aid to any middle eastern country threatened by communism
3. this person was known as the leader of civil rights movement
6. abolished the practice of collecting poll taxes
8. ended the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere
11. stagnation and inflation; led to the use of Keynesian economics and deficit spending
12. limited presidency to 2 terms in office
13. ended literacy tests and provided federal registrars in areas where blacks were kept from voting
19. made segregation illegal in all public facilities
21. declared that future Asian allies would receive US support but without the extensive use of US ground forces
22. Truman decided to enact this in response to soviet aggression
24. Soviet Union released the first satellites into orbit around the earth
25. belief that communist spied infiltrated US society

1. the national guard was issued by the governor to prevent these students from attending a racially segregated school
4. this nationwide scandal involved Nixon’s group of men(CREEP)who broke into the offices of the democratic national headquarters
5. Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat on the bus to a white man sparked this boycott
7. Johnson’s domestic program that expanded the social reforms of the New Deal
9. McCarthy was exposed on national television and seen as a bully; compared to Salem Witch Trials
10. ruled that “separate facilities are inherently equal”
14. the Court denied Nixon’s claims to executive privilege and ordered him to turn over the Watergate tapes
15. televised images of this event marked a turning point for the civil rights movement
16. a sign of basic confidence in the postwar era
17. advocated self-defense and black violence against white violence
18. authorized the construction of 42,000 interstate highways linking major cities
20. major crisis of the Cold War and also contributed to Truman’s election in office
23. massacre of women and children by US troops in a Vietnamese village that fueled antiwar sentiment