Chapter 20 Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. Dramatic increase in birthrate, especially in the years following World War II/
  2. 7. 1958 measure designed to improve science and mathematics instruction in schools.
  3. 9. Average annual income per person.
  4. 11. Corporation made up of three or more unrelated businesses.
  5. 13. Music popular in the 1950s that grew out of rhythm and blues.
Down
  1. 1. The social and economic transition from wartime to peacetime.
  2. 2. A business that contracts with a large parent company to offer certain goods and services.
  3. 3. President Eisenhower's approach to government, described as "conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings".
  4. 4. In the 1950s, a person who criticized American society as apathetic and conformist.
  5. 6. Acronym for the agency created for space exploration in 1958.
  6. 8. A tiny circuit device invented in 1947 that amplifies, controls, and generates electrical signals.
  7. 10. Law passed by Congress in 1947 that allowed the President to declare an 80-day cooling off period when strikes impacted industries that affected national interest.
  8. 12. Law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education.