1950's Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. A main road, especially one connecting major towns or citie
  2. 3. Involved the birth of almost 4 million babies a year during the 1950-1960's
  3. 5. The capital city of Alabama that played a significant role in both American history and civil rights movements.
  4. 6. Convicted of passing secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in 1945 and sentenced to death.
  5. 7. Committee which was charged with identifying Communist threats to the United States.
  6. 8. A policy which stated that the US would give aid to any country threatened by communism.
  7. 10. Movement aimed at gaining equal rights among races in the United States
  8. 12. An outlying residential area of a city or town
  9. 13. A strategy used by the United States to try to prevent the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
  10. 15. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who ruled that racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
  11. 16. Activist who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus
Down
  1. 2. Accused of being a communist and was later charged with perjury and espionage against the United States.
  2. 4. A 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
  3. 9. A period of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of leftist ideologies in a society, especially communism.
  4. 11. A law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans.
  5. 14. An attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin,