Across
- 1. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
- 4. basic rights held by every human being, including religious freedom, education, and equality
- 9. village in South Vietnam where in 1968 American forces opened fire on unarmed civilians
- 11. 1973 law passed by Congress restricting the President’s war-making powers
- 13. South Vietnamese communist rebels who waged a guerrilla war against the government of South Vietnam throughout the Vietnam War
- 14. principle that the President has the right to keep private
- 16. was a commander of the US forces in the Vietnam War
- 18. flexible diplomacy adopted by President Richard Nixon to ease tensions between the US and Soviet Union
- 21. jellied gasoline dropped in canisters that explode on impact and cover large areas in flame
- 22. proposed agreement between US and USSR to limit certain types of nuclear arms production
- 23. term for the economic condition created in the late 1960s and 1970s by high inflation combined with stagnant economic growth and high unemployment
- 25. official forgiveness of a crime and its punishment
- 26. a young American man drafted into military service
- 28. American public’s growing distrust of statements made by the government during the Vietnam War
- 29. Ford- Vice president to Nixon, became President after Nixon resigned from the Presidency and then pardoned Nixon
- 34. communist assault on a large number of South Vietnamese cities in early 1968
- 35. Communist North Vietnamese leader
- 36. tactic of the Republican Party to win presidential elections by securing the electoral vote of southern states
- 37. group of countries that sell oil to other nations and cooperate to regulate the price and supply of oil, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- 38. assassinated antiwar candidate for 1968 Democratic Party presidential nomination
- 39. idea that if a nation falls to communism its closest neighbors will also fall communist
- 40. agreement made in 1975 among the nations of Europe, Soviet Union, US, and Canada too respect and support human rights
- 41. person who supported US involvement in Vietnam War
- 42. 1973 Peace agreement between the US, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong to ended Vietnam War
- 43. 1977 law that requires banks & especially those that operate in low- to middle- income minorities neighborhoods, to loan a portion of their deposits to the residents of those neighborhoods
- 44. a Christian who believes in a strict, literal interpretation of the Bible as the foundation of Christian faith
Down
- 1. 1972 treaty between US and Soviet Union that froze the deployment of IBMs and placed limits on ABMs
- 2. President after Ford, was the president during the Iran Hostage Crisis
- 3. foreign policy advisor to President Kennedy and Johnson, National Security Advisor and Secretary of state under Nixon
- 5. change to the constitution at deals with presidential succession, vice presidential vacancy, and presidential disability
- 6. 1964 congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam to fight a war against North Vietnam
- 7. President during the Vietnam War and ended it, only President to resign in office rather than impeachment herrings over the Watergate Scandal
- 8. policy that gives special consideration to women and minorities to make up for past discrimination
- 10. political scandal involving illegal activities that led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974
- 12. President Nixon’s plan for gradual withdrawal of US forces as South Vietnamese troops assumed more combat duties
- 15. 1972 Supreme Court decision that extended freedom of religion to allow Amish parents on religious grounds to withdraw their children from public school after the eighth grade
- 17. 1978 agreement brokered by President Carter between Egyptian and Israeli leaders that made peace treaty between two nations possible
- 19. minister who uses the television to preach
- 20. penalties intended to make people obey laws and rules, especially measures taken to force a country to obey international law
- 24. refugees who fled nations of Southeast Asia by boat beginning in the 1970’s
- 27. foreign policy based on concrete national interests instead of abstract ideologies
- 30. countries that are less economically advanced that developed countries
- 31. classified US government study that revealed American leaders involved the US in Vietnam without fully norming the American people, leaked to the New York Times in 1971
- 32. a person who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War
- 33. phrase introduced by President Nixon to refer to a significant number of Americans who supported his policies but chose to not express their views