1950s

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Across
  1. 4. - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and supporter of anti segregation laws.
  2. 5. N Roll - a new style of music which drew inspiration from African American blues music, embraced themes popular among teenagers, such as young love and rebellion against authority.
  3. 7. - the massive expansion of families post WWII meant a massive increase in the need for housing. Massive housing developments were built to meet the need.
  4. 8. - A form of civil disobedience that was popular in the civil rights movement.
  5. 10. - the primary federal agency responsible for aerospace research and the civilian space program.
  6. 12. Hop - an informal dance in school gyms that had people dance in their socks to avoid damaging the gym floor
  7. 14. - the president after FDR who was responsible for the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.
  8. 15. was a series of 3 Russian launches beginning in 1957 that orbited or nearly orbited Earth.
  9. 18. - WWII general and 34th president of the United States
  10. 19. Parks - civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus and got arrested for refuseing.
Down
  1. 1. became the first man to enter Earth’s orbit, in a single-pilot spacecraft called Vostok I.
  2. 2. - beginning of the Red Scare and the federal government’s movement to weed out possible communists in the government
  3. 3. - major fighter for civil rights and the first african american supreme court justice.
  4. 6. War - In general is a war that is not directly fought but only through what are known as proxy wars.
  5. 8. - supreme court decision that ended separate but equal segregation of schools.
  6. 9. Luther King Jr. The civil rights activist who said the i have a dream speech.
  7. 11. Berry - father of rock and roll
  8. 13. - An example of the proxy war happening during the Cold War with Russia. The two parts continued to fight about communism and capitalism and
  9. 16. known as the king of rock and roll.
  10. 17. known as the first man to break the sound barrier when flying