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  1. 4. / each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
  2. 6. Till / a 14-year-old Black teenager who was abducted, beaten, and lynched by two white men in 1955
  3. 8. / a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education.
  4. 10. Luther King Jr / his contributions to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. His most famous work is his “I Have a Dream”
  5. 11. / ​the name of three US towns designed and built by William Levitt soon after the Second World War to meet the need for cheap houses for soldiers returning from the war and their families.
  6. 15. / Cambodia, Loas ,Vietnam, know as one section is
  7. 17. Cong / Southern Vietnam Soldiers
  8. 18. / an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.
  9. 20. War / conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives.
Down
  1. 1. Minh / Northern Vietnam Soldiers
  2. 2. Parks / "the mother of the civil rights movement"
  3. 3. /the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
  4. 5. Bill of Rights / provided World War II veterans with funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing
  5. 7. Theory / the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
  6. 9. Rock Nine / to the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.
  7. 12. Presley / the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
  8. 13. Chi Minh / was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician. He served as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and as president from 1945 until his death in 1969.
  9. 14. Indochina War / pitted France against the Viet Minh under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh.
  10. 16. / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  11. 19. and Roll / a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Rock and roll was an amalgam of rhythm and blues and country music, usually based on a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums.