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Down: 2) provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as GIs or G. I.s) as well as one-year of unemployment compensation. It also provided loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses.5) 1945; a wartime conference held in Russia, where the Allies (FDR, Churchill and Stalin) agreed to final plans for the defeat and joint occupation of Germany. It also provided for occupation of Poland by the Soviet Union, with free elections7) a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later.8) one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.10) 12) a decades-long movement with the goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already enjoyed15) Truman wanted to prevent the spread of communism. He wanted it "contained". The first implementation of the Truman Doctrine was $400 million given to aid Greece and Turkey to prevent a communist takeover.16) 1945; the Allied leaders divided Germany and Berlin into four occupation zones, agreed to try Nazi leaders as war criminals and planned the exacting reparations from Germany17) a 1947 federal court case that challenged Mexican remedial schools in Orange County, California.21)  a 66-page top secret National Security Council policy paper drafted by the Department of State and Department of Defense and presented to President Harry S. Truman on 7 April 1950 Across: 1) an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.3) a landmark United States Supreme Court case that resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials to a federal district court.4) an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 19496) the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.8) 9)  two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II.11) a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement.13) a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.14) a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. 18) 19) a series of events that took place in the United States on the evening of Saturday, October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal.20) A US political scandal in which an attempt in 1972 to bug the national headquarters of the Democratic Party (in the Watergate building in Washington DC) led to the resignation of President Nixon 22) an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 196823) the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.24)  a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.25) an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.26)  a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong (rebel forces sponsored by North Vietnam) and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War.27) an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, a position he occupied for four terms, during which he promoted "low-grade industrial development, low taxes, and trade schools"28)  the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. 29) outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting30) developed the atomic bomb and leader of the Manhattan Project. Once the bomb was built, he argued against using it against Japan31) 32) 33) a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.34) plan to limit communism to the areas already under Soviet control and prevent it from spreading throughout the world.35) a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II.
 

 

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