1950s Review Crossword
Across
- 3. Type of jobs reserved for women during the 1950s (2 words)
- 5. Style of government where property is owned by the government instead of individual people
- 6. President who ordered the A-bombs to be dropped on Japan and who said Communism was America's greatest threat after WWII
- 8. Acting or looking the same as everybody else
- 11. Popular president who served as a general during WWII
- 12. Neighborhoods outside the city centers where many white families moved during the 1950s
- 13. Activist and NAACP member who refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a bus boycott (2 words)
- 14. The act of keeping people separated based on race
- 15. Senator who claimed to have a list of Communist spies working in the US government
- 18. Term for Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler
Down
- 1. Where General Douglas MacArthur ordered an amphibious invasion to drive the North Korean military out of South Korea
- 2. Expected patterns of behavior based on whether you are a man or woman (2 words)
- 4. The deal that put the Korean War on pause
- 7. Arkansas city where African-American students had to be escorted to school by soldiers before they were allowed to attend a formerly all-white high school (2 words)
- 9. Network of highways created by Dwight Eisenhower (2 words)
- 10. Term for the explosion in population after WWII (2 words)
- 16. Rivalry between the US and Soviet Union but where no actual shots were fired (2 words)
- 17. Peninsula that featured lots of fighting between the US and China during the Cold War