EARLY COLD WAR AND 1950'S
Across
- 2. Developed the first successful polio vaccine
- 3. conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
- 7. Operation were planes flew food and supplies into western berlin after the soviets blockaded the city
- 9. HWY system
- 12. an outlying residential area of a city or town or to a separate municipality or unincorporated area outside a town or city.
- 13. prevent the spread of communism
- 15. music style popular in the teenangers and rejected by manny adults
- 17. soldiers coming home to their wives and experiencing the prosperity occurring in America
- 18. a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era.
- 19. House Un-American Activities Committee
- 21. American singer and actor. Known as the "King of Rock and Roll"
Down
- 1. a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.
- 4. The concept if one country falls to communism, especially asian countries,the countries around it will fall as well
- 5. also known as the second Red Scare
- 6. a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries
- 8. To see who would get to space first, the US or Russia
- 10. earth's first artificial satellite
- 11. Servicemen's readjustment act, paid for colleague and homes
- 14. the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
- 16. competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War
- 20. an international organization founded in 1945.