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