U.s. History

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. A statement of fundamental ___ and privileges (12)
  2. 8. Confinement during wartime (10)
  3. 9. A herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas (11)
  4. 12. A state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico (9)
  5. 15. Elected leader of a country (9)
  6. 16. The state capital of Ohio (8)

Down

  1. 1. A native or inhabitant of ___ (8)
  2. 2. Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 (9)
  3. 3. The political ___ that if one nation comes under communist control then neighboring nations will (12)
  4. 4. Author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (6)
  5. 5. A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (10)
  6. 7. A socialist who advocates ___ (9)
  7. 10. 32nd President of the United States (9)
  8. 11. Militant civil rights leader (8)
  9. 13. A friendly nation (plural) (6)
  10. 14. Founder of modern communism (8)