US History

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Across
  1. 1. a main road, especially one connecting major towns or cities.
  2. 3. a period marked by a significant increase of births.
  3. 5. The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United
  4. 6. an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union.
  5. 7. created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations
  6. 8. the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
  7. 10. the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
  8. 12. an outlying part of a city or town
  9. 13. a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United State
  10. 15. former Cali Governor
  11. 16. Person who refused to give her seat up to a white man
Down
  1. 2. American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
  2. 4. a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating
  3. 9. , period of public fear and anxiety over the supposed rise of communist or socialist ideologies in a noncommunist state.
  4. 11. a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans.
  5. 14. Blockade from 24 June 1948 to 12 May 1949, cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany.