Across
- 1. The bombing of __________ Harbor made the United States finally enter into World War II
- 2. Anti-War protests on college campuses and the Hippie Counterculture were examples of youth rebelling against society in the 1960s
- 4. The US policy of trying to stop the spread of communism was known as _____________________
- 8. The ideas of recall, ______________ and initiative gave citizens more control over government
- 10. The big rival of the United States during the Cold War was the _____________ Union
- 11. The ___________ East became globally more important because of the oil that began to be produced there in the 1950s
- 13. The US got involved in the Vietnam War as a part of the Containment Policy and the fear of the Domino Effect
- 15. President Hoover's ________________ style of politics led him to not take much action to help end the Great Depression
- 16. The biggest US disaster of the Cold War was the Bay of ______ invasion of Cuba
- 18. Cesar Chavez helped poor ___________ farm workers fight for their rights and against bad working conditions
- 19. NATO, or the North _______________ Treaty Organization was a military alliance to counter Soviet military strength in Eastern Europe
- 20. The Great _____________ is not considered to have ended until the beginning of World War II
- 23. If the US failed to contain the spread of communism lots of countries would fall one after another. This was known as the _____________ Effect
- 25. ____________ the Riveter was a symbol for the female factory workers who helped the US win the war
- 26. Before schools were desegregated President ____________ integrated the U.S. military
- 28. Dr. Martin Luther King led ________________ protests to fight for civil rights
- 29. FDR's fireside chats were broadcast over the ____________ as TV was not invented yet
- 32. The ____________ Airlift was an example of the US besting the Soviet Union during the Cold War
- 33. The federal budget deficit (what the countries owes)_________ dramatically during the 1980s under President Reagan
- 34. The ____________-Americans were rounded up and put in camps during WWII, a clear violation of their civil rights!
Down
- 1. FDR got a lot of bad press for the Court ____________ Scandal when he tried to add more Justices to the Supreme Court so he could get his way
- 3. Presidents Lyndon Johnson and FDR both created major social ___________ programs to help the poor in our country
- 5. The major cause of the collapse of the Stock Market in 1929 was ______________________
- 6. The Camp _______ Accords were Pr. Jimmy Carter's attempt at brokering a peace deal between Egypt and Israel
- 7. At the beginning of WWI and WWII the United States tried to stay out of the conflict by remaing _____________ and not taking sides
- 9. After the Watergate Scandal President Richard Nixon was forced to _____________ from office (the only president to do so)
- 12. Brown vs. Board of Ed made segregation of schools _______________ in 1954
- 14. FDR tried to improve the US relationship with Latin American countries by instituting the Good _____________ Policy
- 17. The invasion of _________ by Iraq lead to the start of the first Persian Gulf War
- 21. The Black __________ Party was a black nationalist group who called for a violent overthrow of the US government
- 22. Truman chose to use the Atomic Bomb so the war would end quickly and many American lives would be _____________
- 24. The Red Scare was a period in American history where there was a panic over the spread of _________________ in the USA
- 27. The Cuban Missile crisis showed Cold War tensions between the US and the Soviet _____________
- 30. The Social Security Act gave _____________ older workers who retired from their jobs
- 31. Chief Justice Thorgood ________ was the first African American on the Supreme Court