The Presidents

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Across
  1. 3. The Great Society; Escalated US involvement in Vietnam
  2. 5. Told Europe to stay out of the Western hemisphere
  3. 8. Louisiana Purchase
  4. 9. Set the precedents of serving two terms and having a cabinet
  5. 12. The "common man's president," "universal" male suffrage
  6. 13. In 2008 was the first person of color to become president
  7. 14. Balanced the budget, but was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice.
  8. 15. Authorized dropping of atomic bombs on Japan; Had a doctrine to contain communism in Europe
  9. 17. Pardoned Nixon. Unpopular move.
  10. 18. Became president after Lincoln's assassination; first to be impeached
  11. 21. The Alien and Sedition Acts
  12. 24. "Vietnamization," detente, "Silent Majority," Watergate
  13. 25. Orchestrated the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, negotiated with Khrushchev to deescalate the Cuban Missile Crisis
Down
  1. 1. President during WWI, comes up with the 14 Points for world peace after
  2. 2. This Roosevelt provoked a revolution in Colombia just so he could build a canal.
  3. 4. 9/11, The War of Terror, USA PATRIOT Act
  4. 6. Trickle-down economics
  5. 7. Won the election of 1860, after which SC seceded from the Union
  6. 10. Camp David Accords, Iran hostage crisis
  7. 11. The Manifest Destiny president
  8. 16. President during the War of 1812; 4th president
  9. 19. Became president with the Compromise of 1877, ending Reconstruction
  10. 20. President through the Great Depression and most of WWII
  11. 22. The DeLome letter criticized him, he'll eventually declare war on Spain
  12. 23. The American people thought he didn't do enough to help them during the Great Depression