Crossword Puzzles-- All of them! Mania, it is!
Hiya! Tis my first set... basically copying down every single damn one from the crossword puzzle, or PUzzle, should I say. x3 By the by, the only words that are used are last names.
THIS IS 203 ****ING TERMS. I'M EXHAUSTED. APPRECIATE ME. -is grumpy because DC's crosswords are so effing big-
Also, I sometimes put little hints next to the definitions. If you don't get them, either AIM me at xCyberDreamerx or email at polgara.cloverflower@gmail.com
THIS IS 203 ****ING TERMS. I'M EXHAUSTED. APPRECIATE ME. -is grumpy because DC's crosswords are so effing big-
Also, I sometimes put little hints next to the definitions. If you don't get them, either AIM me at xCyberDreamerx or email at polgara.cloverflower@gmail.com
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- Nagasaki
- Japanese city the second to be hit by an atomic bomb (alphabetical order)
- Impeach
- To formally charge a government official with wrongdoing while in office (James likes these)
- Tea Pot Dome
- Scandal during the Harding administration (short and stout, here is my handle, here is my spout...)
- Bull Run
- First real battle fought outside Washington, DC (two words)
- McClellan
- Union general and candidate for President in 1864
- Pearl Harbor
- American military base in Hawaii (two words)
- Segregation
- Separation of people on the basis of racial, religious, or social differences
- Warsaw Pact
- Agreement among communist nations in response to the creation of NATO (two words)
- Jackie Robinson
- American baseball player who was the first Black in the major leagues (first and last) (In the Year of the Boar and...)
- Thirteen
- Amendment which abolished slavery (spelled out)
- Leyte Gulf
- Pacific battle fought for control of the Philippines; largest naval battle in history (2 words)
- Stonewall
- Nickname for Southern general who brought reinforcements to Bull Run; killed at Chancellorsville (coincidentally also a street I live close to...)
- Zimmermann
- German foreign minister who sent telegram urging Mexico to join Central Powers against the U.S. in World War I
- Jefferson Davis
- President of the Confederacy (first and last)
- Fourteen
- Amendment which gave African Americans citizenship in the U.S. as well as in their state (spelled out)
- U-Boat
- German submarine
- Stalin
- Dictator of the Soviet Union; led the SU through World War II and created a powerful Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe after the war
- NATO
- Agreement made in 1949 to stand firm against Soviet military threats, made between the U.S., Great Britain, France, and eight other nations
- Woodrow Wilson
- 28h President; proposed the14-Point Plan which included the League of Nations (first and last) (also a close relative of snoopy's best friend)
- Fair Deal
- Truman's programs which called for new housing and employment projects (2 words)
- Reconstruction
- Process, after the Civil War, of bringing the southern states back into the Union
- Chaplin
- Actor who popularized the "Little Tramp" character
- Black Codes
- Series of laws passed by southern legislatures to control freed men and women and enable plantation owners to exploit African American workers
- Mussolini
- Italian dictator during WW2
- Copperheads
- Northerners who opposed the Civil War
- Bracero
- Program that stimulated emigration from Mexico during WW2; US labor agents recruited 1000's of farm and railroad workers
- Fifteen
- Amendment which granted suffrage to African Americans (spelled out)
- Sudetenland
- Area of Czechoslovakia annexed by Hitler claiming the German-speaking people there were being persecuted
- Pershing
- Head of the AEF during WW1
- FLSA
- Act that set the normal work week at 40 hours, establish a national minimum wage, and outlawed child labor
- Bessie Smith
- African American blues singer poplar in the 1920's (first and last)
- Tuskegee Airmen
- African American group of pilots who shot down more than 200 enemy planes (two words)
- Capone
- Crime boss of the 20's
- Scopes
- Tennessee teacher accused of teaching evolution
- Dubois
- African American educator, editor, and writer; helped found the NAACP (one letter away from a grouchy old morphine addict we all know and love)
- Savannah
- Sherman's destination when he left Atlanta
- Johnson
- Lincoln's VP; 17th President; impeached because of his unpopular ideas about Reconstruction and held onto he office by one vote (one of two presidents to be from TN; also a concert hall at Tea Pack is named after him...)
- Red Scare
- Fear of foreigners and communists (it was colorful) (two words)
- Nazi
- Hitler's political party
- McCarthy
- Senator who accused hundreds of American citizens as having communists toes, part of the Red Scare of the 1950's (haha, DC said "toes")
- Randolph
- Founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, made up mostly of African Americans; labor leader who, in 1941, threatened a march on DC protesting discrimination against Blacks in defense industries (the red nosed reindeer....)
- Rommel
- Commander of Axis troops in North Africa, known as the "Desert Fox"
- Coral Sea
- Pacific battle which stopped Japanese advance on Australia (2 words)
- Assembly Line
- Henry Ford's method to mass-produce cars (two words)
- Bootlegger
- Person who smuggled or sold illegal liquor
- League of Nations
- Wilson's plan for an international peace organization (3 words) (oddly worded by DC... just think of the international organization that he created. and remember THREE words)
- Codetalkers
- Navajo troops who used their language to send messages in a code the Japanese were never able to break
- Speakeasy
- Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition (either because you had to have a password to get in, or because you don't think about what you're saying when you're drunk. a popular argument between DC and me)
- Munich
- German city where conference was held giving Hitler permission to take the Sudetenland if he promised not to expand Germany territory further
- Steinbeck
- Author of THE GRAPES OF WRATH about Okies moving to California to work in the fields
- Brown
- _____ vs. Board of Education stated in 1954 that it was unconstitutional to maintain separate black and white schools
- GI Bill of Rights
- Government program that paid for WW2 veterans' education and housing (two initials, three words)
- Axis
- Alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy (Wolfenstein players)
- On Margin
- Buy stock by paying 10% of the stock price and borrowing the rest (prepositional phrase with two words)
- Operation Overlord
- Code name for the Allied invasion of Europe (two words)
- Conservative
- Someone who prefers little government action to bring about social and economic reform
- Perkins
- First woman to serve in a President's Cabinet; Secretary of Labor (she was in labor for years...)
- Reparations
- Cash payments by losing country to victorious nations after a war
- Shiloh
- Important Civil War battle in southwest Tennessee (also a very cute puppy)
- Lincoln
- 16th President; promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famous _______-Douglas debates; issued the Emancipation Proclamation; assassinated in 1865
- Jazz Age
- Term used to describe the decade's (1920's) break from rules and traditions (2 words)
- JFK
- 35th President elected in 1960; assassinated in 1963 in Dallas (initials)
- Pickett
- Confederate general famous for his unsuccessful "charge" at Gettysburg
- CCC
- New Deal agency that put over 3 million young men aged 18-25 to work on conservation and rural improvement projects- received room. board, and shelter + $30 per month; required to send $25 home to families; organization created in 1938 that allowed farmers to store surplus crops in government warehouses until prices improved; farmers could borrow against the crop and pay off the loan when they sold the crop
- Manhattan Project
- Top secret operation to create the atomic bomb (2 words)
- Trench Warfare
- Form of combat in which soldiers dug deep ditches to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions (2 words)
- Palmer
- Attorney General who ordered raids on homes of suspected radicals and communists during the Red Scare of the 1920's
- Armstrong
- Important African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpter whose style influenced many later musicians (or a man who survived cancer...)
- Midway
- Pacific battle victory here gave Allies control of the "central" Pacific
- Red Baron
- German "ace" (pilot) in WW1 (nickname; two words... SNOOPY!)
- Baby Boomers
- Sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate after World War II (plural; what the people were actually called; two words)
- George
- British representative at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 (or the scrawny coogan...)
- Petersburg
- Union siege here in VA lasted ten months; some of the first trench warfare used here
- Sherman
- Union commander who waged "total war" across Georgia
- Jim Crow
- Laws passed in southern states which required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place (awfully birdy, don't you think?) (two words)
- AAA
- New Deal legislation which rented land from farmers in order to raise prices - farmer got rent higher prices and rent money (1933); after 1933 law declared unconstitutional, this legislation in 1938 allotted so much land per farmer in order to keep prices high, taking into consideration demands for product in U.S. and around the world
- NYA
- New Deal agency which gave college students jobs around the campus so they could stay in school; also keep them out of the job market (add an h to the end and whaddaya know, it's my favorite word!)
- Harlem Renaissance
- Period during the 1920's when New York City's Harlem became an intellectual and cultural capital for African Americans (2 words)
- Ford
- American business leader; his moving assembly line could produced cars faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- Supreme Court case which ruled that "separate but equal" was constitutional (two words, one abbreviation)
- Armistice
- Agreement to stop fighting (___/Veterans Day)
- Barton
- Founder of the American Red Cross; she administered care to Union soldiers during the Civil War
- Clemenceau
- French premier during World War I; he was the French representative at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919
- No Man's Land
- Area between the trenches in World War I (three words)
- Hundred Days
- First part of FDR's first term during which Congress passed many New Deal programs (2 words) (maddi got this one right)
- Marshall Plan
- Program after World War II to help boost the economies of European nations (2 words)
- Lange
- American photographer who recorded the Great Depression by taking pictures of the unemployed and rural poor (Just tap your heels together three times...)
- Vicksburg
- Union victory here insured control of the Mississippi River
- Rosa Parks
- American civil rights activist whose arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott (first and last)
- FERA
- Federal agency which distributed 500 million dollars to state and local governments to distribute to the poor and unemployed during the Great Depression
- Coolidge
- VP who became President after Harding's death; 30th President of the U.S.; known for his honesty and pro-business policies
- MacArthur
- American general; he commanded U.S. troops in the South Pacific during World War II; later he commanded UN forces in the Korean War; also drove the Bonus Marchers out of DC
- WPA
- New Deal organization that built post offices, city halls, recreation buildings, roads, school, etc.; also provided variety of jobs for actors, musicians, writers, photographers, etc.
- Spirit of St Louis
- Lindbergh's airplane (three words and one abbreviation)
- Flapper
- Young woman in the 1920's who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting
- Brady
- Famous Civil War photographer (also the quarterback of my favorite football team...)
- Amnesty
- Official pardon for crime made against the government (____ International)
- Churchill
- British Prime Minister who opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II
- Bulge
- Battle in late 1944 where Germans mounted last desperate defense against advancing Allies; more than 100,000 casualties; Marked the end of serious German resistance
- Antietam
- Union victory here led to the Emancipation Proclamation
- Manassas
- Another name for Bull Run (like molasses, but not as good...)
- Cold War
- Tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II (2 words)
- Capitalism
- Economic system based on private property and free enterprise (-ism: the belief in... and also communists' enemy)
- Fascism
- Term referring to the extreme nationalism and racism in Italy in the 1930's ([for all the latin students:] WIELD THAT FASCES!)
- Hitler
- Leader of Germany during WW2
- Lucille Ball
- Actress and TV star of the comedy series, "I Love Lucy" (first and last name)
- Sitdown
- Type of strike where workers continuously occupy the plant and refuse to work until management agrees to their demands
- Hemingway
- Ambulance driver in World War I; author of A FAREWELL TO ARMS and THE SUN ALSO RISES as well as MOUNT KILIMANJARO
- Tojo
- Japanese nationalist and general; he took control of Japan during World War II; later executed for war crimes
- Big Four
- Term to describe the major representatives at the peace conference after World War I (2 words)
- Hooverville
- Shantytown of the 1930's (named after a president)
- Habeas Corpus
- Right to have charges filed or a hearing before being jailed (LATIN KIDS) (two words)
- Enola Gay
- B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (2 words) (Rainbow pride!)
- Berlin Airlift
- Mission during the Cold War in which the U.S. flew supplies to West Berlin after the Soviets blocks roads, rivers, and railroads (2 words)
- Ruth
- Greatest baseball player of the 1920's (and a yummy candy bar)
- Merrimack
- Confederate ironclad ship (because the south is MERRIER than the north)
- Lee
- American general who refused o Lincoln's offer to head the Union army in the Civil War; successfully led several battles until his defeat at Gettysburg; surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House
- Eisenhower
- Allied commander in WW2 in Europe; helped plan the D-Day invasion at Normandy; 34th President
- Elvis
- Rock'n'Roll star of the 1950's (first name)
- Deficit Spending
- Using borrowed money to fund government programs, like in the New Deal (GWBush has WAY over used this) (two words)
- Inouye
- Japanese American who lost an arm in World War II battle; later became U.S. Senator from Hawaii
- KKK
- Southern society formed in 1866 to prevent freed men and women from exercising their rights and to help whites regain power; revised in the 1920's to terrorize foreigners, Catholics, Jews, etc.
- Fitzgerald
- Author of THE GREAT GATSBY; characters included flappers, bootleggers, and movie makers
- Sumter
- Charleston fort where the first shots were fired
- Twenty One
- Amendment that repealed the 18th (spelled out)
- Blitzkrieg
- "Lightning war" (i before e except after c...)
- Farragut
- Union admiral who captured New Orleans during the Civil War
- Nisei
- Japanese Americans born in the U.S.
- York
- Greatest American hero of World War I (from Tennessee)
- Iwo Jima
- Pacific island captured by the Americans in March 1945; commemorated by the US Marine Memorial in DC (2 words)
- Grandfather Clause
- Law which eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes for persons who had voted before 1867 and their descendants; this meant only white men qualified to vote (2 words)
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Set up to help former slaves adjust to their freedom (2 words)
- Scalawags
- Southern whites in the Republican party during Reconstruction; term has come to mean "scoundrels" or "worthless rascals"
- Hiroshima
- Japanese city the first to be hit by an atomic bomb (alphabetical order...)
- NRA
- New Deal agency created by the NIRA in 1933 which set up codes of fair competition, minimum wage, 40-hour work week, etc.; declared unconstitutional
- Nixon
- 37th President; resigned because of the Watergate scandal (******* republican...)
- Rosenbergs
- Couple executed for giving military secrets to the Soviets in the 1950's (If Aaron and Zach were gay...)
- Washington
- (READ THE LAST PART OF THE CLUE) African American leader and educator who was born into slavery and later became head of Tuskegee Institute for career training for African Americans (Booker T)
- SEC
- Regulated the way companies could issue and sell securities (stocks); power to punish dishonest stockbrokers and speculators (like Martha Stewart)S
- Rationing
- Distribution of scarce resources and products
- Korean War
- War between North and South Korea in the early 1950's; North supported by the SU and South by the U.S. and the United Nations
- Normandy
- French coast where Allied troops landed on June 6, 1944
- Great Migration
- Movement of African Americans to the North to seek jobs in the 1920's and 1930's (two words) (always reminds me of flamingoes...)
- Kamikaze
- Japanese suicide pilot (and Joey's sn...)
- Dunkirk
- French port where 300,000 British and French troops were trapped by the Germans; daring rescue by 800 warships, ferries, and fishing boats across the English Channel
- Island Hopping
- Strategy in the Pacific; attacking and capturing certain key islands and then using these as bases for leapfrogging to others, moving closer and closer to the Philippines and then Japan (2 words)
- Monitor
- Union ironclad ship (because the northerners were STALKERS)
- Liberal
- Someone who favors federal government action to bring about social and economic reform
- Eighteen
- Prohibition Amendment (spelled out)
- Truman
- Elected Vice president in 1944; 33rd President, after FDR's death; led the U.S. through the end of World War II and beginning of the Cold War
- Patton
- American general who was involved in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge; known for his great ability in tank warfare
- Sharecropping
- System in which landowners provided laborers with the supplies needed for farming in exchange for a portion of their crops (Syn. for PORTION)
- Poll Tax
- Fee charged for voting (2 words) (later stopped by the 24th amendment)
- Harding
- 29th President elected in 1920; died in 1923; scandals such as Teapot Dome discovered after his death (also a road a live by...)
- Hoover
- Head of the Food Administration during WW1; 31st President, elected in 1928; failed to deal with effectively with the Great Depression; defeated for reelection in 1932 by FDR; slums were named after him (also a famous vacuum cleaner...)
- United Nations
- International peace organization established in 1945 in San Francisco (2 words)
- Lindbergh
- Popular hero of the 1920's who flew The Spirit of St. Louis nonstop across the Atlantic
- Berlin Wall
- Wall built between East Berlin and West Berlin in 1961(2 words) (0MG 17Z 50 0R1G1N41!!!11)
- Dust Bowl
- Nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930's (2 words)
- Korematsu
- _____ v. United States, upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 (last part of last name means pine tree in japanese)
- Emancipate
- Set free (as in the ____tion Proclamation)
- Ford's Theater
- Place where Abe Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 (2 words) (not spelled the european way)
- Garvey
- Popular African American leader who proposed a "Back to Africa" movement and started the UNIA which urged African Americans to take pride in their heritage
- Prohibition
- Legal ban on alcohol imposed by the 18th Amendment (poorly worded... Just another name for the 18th)
- TVA
- Federal agency established in 933 to develop water-power resources in the Tennessee River valley
- Gettysburg
- Union victory here was the turning point in the Civil War
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Order issued by President Lincoln freeing the slaves in those areas in rebellion (2 words)
- Self Determination
- Right of national groups to their own territory and forms of government (two words) (I got this right in jeopardy... PWND.)
- Wagner
- Also known as National Labor Relations Act; set up the NLRB to settle corporate disputes and run union elections; when majority of workers in a plant voted to join a labor union, it became the official representative of the workers (mans name)
- Lusitania
- British passenger ship sunk by German U-Boat (also known as the Lucy-Tina)
- New Deal
- FDR's program to revive the country from the Great Depression
- Nationalism
- Pride in one's country, culture, ethnic group, etc.
- Richmond
- Confederate capital
- Anaconda
- Name given to the Civil War battle strategy to "squeeze" the South and cut off from the rest of the world
- Fireside Chats
- Informal presidential speeches given by FDR in the 1930's (2 words)
- Dog Fights
- "Duels in the Sky" (growl...) (two words)
- Containment
- U.S. strategy in the 1950's aimed at limiting the spread of communism
- Ratify
- Approve (a rather mousey word...)
- Versailles
- Treaty that ending World War I that required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations
- Hughes
- Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Social Security
- Act that provided unemployment insurance and old-age insurance; paid partly by employer and partly by the employee did not cover farm workers and domestic workers (two words)
- Border States
- States - MD, WVA, KY, DE, MO-that allowed slavery but did not leave the Union during the Civil War (2 words)
- Grant
- Union chief commander at the end of the war; won battles at Vicksburg, Shiloh, Fort Henry, and Fort Donelson; 18th President; elected President in 1868 and 1872 (first name is the Roman name of a hubris-filled Greek)
- Communism
- Economic system in which all wealth and property are owned by the community as a whole (RoBerTo)
- Hardtack
- Hard, tough cracker eaten by both Confederate and Union soldiers
- Poland
- Country whose attack by Germany in 1939 signaled the start of WW2 (Dr. McCoy's mom is from here! =D [or I could be wrong and feeling stupid...])
- Tenure of Office
- Act that led to Johnson's impeachment (3 words)
- Carpet Baggers
- Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to profit financially from the confused and unsettled conditions (2 words)
- Lend Lease
- Act in March 1941, which allowed the US to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense (2 words)
- Blue Eagle
- Symbol of the NRA (2 words)
- Nineteen
- Women's suffrage amendment (spelled out)
- Dix
- Organized large numbers of women to serve as nurses during the Civil War; helped change the prison system nationwide by advocating the development of state hospitals to treat the mentally ill instead of imprisonment (Don't eat my socks Toto!)
- Chamberlain
- British Prime Minister who made the Munich Agreement with Hitler (LONGBOTTOM!)
- Korematsu
- Japanese American who sued the U.S. government that his civil rights had been violated when he was placed in an internment camp (the last part of his name means pine trees)
- Eleanor
- FDR's wife; only First Lady with her own statue in DC (first name)
- Central Powers
- Alliance between Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and Germany in WW1 (2 words)
- Booth
- Actor and Confederate supporter who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- FDIC
- Insured each bank deposit up to $5,000
- Iron Curtain
- Term first used by Winston Churchill to describe the barrier of censorship and secrecy that existed between communists countries and the rest of the world (2 words) (here's a hint: you don't see this type of drapery very ofte. xD)
- Andersonville
- Civil War prison in Georgia
- Truman Doctrine
- U.S. policy to give financial and military aid to countries so they could resist communism (two words)
- Rosie the Riveter
- Advertising character who symbolized women in war manufacturing jobs (three words)
- Tilden
- Democratic candidate for President in 1876; lost the election by the Compromise of 1877