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American History 1950's - Present

Mr. Schoonover

This puzzle is made to help review information from the 1950's through the present.

Word Bank
AIDs, AffirmativeAction, Afghanistan, ArabSprings, BayofPigs, BerlinWall, Bioterrorism, BlackPower, Bracero, BusBoycott, Carter, CubanMissleCrisis, DDT, DominoEffect, EuroCrisis, Ford, FreedomRiders, GIBill, GenevaAccord, Gorbachev, GreatSociety, HoChiMinhTrail, Impeached, Kennedy, KyotoProtocol, MalcolmX, MartinLutherKingJr, Nixon, NixonDoctrine, Oswald, PersianGulfWar, Reagan, ReaganDoctrine, RoeV.Wade, Sit-In, Sputnik, StarWars, TetOffensive, TienanmenSquare, Watergate

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2.Mobilization of African Americans, compel respect and improve condition.
6.Civil Rights leader, wrote "I Have a Dream" speech.
7.Act that provided funds to help veterans.
11.Negotiations to end conflict in Vietnam but failed.
16.The man you assassinated President Kennedy.
19.Chinese students and workers held protests, was crushed by government.
21.This compromised your immune system, was considered an epidemic.
24.Soviet Union was building long range nuclear weapons in Cuba.
28.President who tried to improve relations with Soviet Union and China in order to end war.
29.Concern about global warming, promised to reduce emissions.
32.U.S. would provide military aid and training to allies but would not make decisions.
34.Built to prevent Eastern Germans from fleeing to Western Germany.
35.Program that hired Hispanics to work but treated them poorly.
36.Strategic Defense Initiative, developed weapons that could intercept incoming missiles.
37.New programs were created, including medicare and medicaid.
38.CIA trained and armed Cuban exiles to attack Communist leader of Cuba.
39.This happened to President Clinton, accused of perjury; lied about having a relationship with an intern.
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1.This protest was when African Americans would go to a dinner and refuse to leave until served.
3.Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, in 1991 Operation Desert Storm was launched.
4.Republicans broke into an office and stole information, they were caught.
5.Groups of volunteers go south to support the civil rights movement.
6.Face of the Black Power movement, influenced new ideas.
8.President that supported Women Rights and the Civil Rights.
9.Actor turned politician who became president, served for 8 years.
10.Path used by North Vietnam for attacks and supplies.
12.A war took place here after the attack on the United States on 9/11 by al-Qaeda.
13.European nations have a collapse of their real estate markets, bank failures, and recession.
14.President who struggled solving economics problems, gave "malaise" speech which offended Americans.
15.Effort to improve employment or educational opportunities for minorities and women.
17.Pesticide that was poisonous and ended up banned, led to the creation of the EPA.
18.U.S. should support guerrilla groups fighting to overthrow communist.
20.First satellite in space, sent there by the USSR.
22.Surprise attacks on all U.S. bases in Vietnam.
23.Women's right to choose.
25.Fear that if one country fell to communism that they all would.
26.Leader of the Soviet Union and agreed to resume arms-control talks with U.S.
27.Popular unrest in the Middle East led to a series of revolutions against oppressive governments.
30.A bacteria used to create biological weapons.
31.Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama. This was the protest that followed.
33.President who promised to create/reform several domestic programs, did not work.

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