Contemporary Unit Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. genocide where 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutus in 1994
  2. 3. the end of the Soviet Union in 1991
  3. 6. president of the USA during most WWII
  4. 9. a system for controlling the humidity, ventilation, and temperature in buildings or vehicles; created in 1902
  5. 10. a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights in the United States
  6. 13. war on the Korean peninsula between the communist north and anti-communist south ended in no victory; occurred from 1950-to 1953
  7. 16. Civil rights activist who preached about peaceful protests
  8. 18. German scientist who invented the atomic bomb
  9. 19. First Leader of the USSR and leader of the Bolsheviks who overthrew the last Tsar of Russia
  10. 20. was the time period where tensions between the USSR and the US after WWII rose but not a single bullet was shot
  11. 24. first communist ruler of China and implamented the One Child Policy
  12. 25. this invention was created to allow people to fly off the ground in 1903
  13. 27. interconnect computer networks were that created in 1983
  14. 29. a group of antibiotics that fight bacteria developed from Penicillium fungi; discovered in 1928
  15. 30. competition between the USSR and the US during the cold war to achieve superior spaceflight capability
Down
  1. 2. major war started with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand; occurred from 1914-19
  2. 4. only laboratory in space allowing astronauts to live and work in space; created in 1998
  3. 5. Austrian Archduke whose assassination sparked WWI
  4. 7. war that started with the invasion of Poland along with the Holocaust; occurred from 1939-1945
  5. 8. first African president of South Africa who advocated against Apartheid
  6. 11. a short narrow board with two small wheels fixed to the bottom of either end; created in the 1950s
  7. 12. brothers who invented the airplane
  8. 14. genocide where 600,000 to 1,500,000 ottoman Armenian were forced to leave their home and were killed along the way
  9. 15. Third Agricultural Revolution during the 1950s and 1960s to create more food for the growing world population
  10. 17. fascist leader of Germany during WWII
  11. 21. technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves
  12. 22. war on the Indochina peninsula between the communist north influenced by the USSR and anti-communist south influenced by the USA ended in victory for the communist north; occurred from 1955-1975
  13. 23. weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy that also ended WWII; the bombings of Hiroshima and nagasaki; created in 1942
  14. 26. armored fighting vehicle that was created in 1914
  15. 28. second leader of the USSR and promoter of Marxism