The 50s and 60s

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  1. 2. Termed coined by a secretary when she found a moth in a computer and it wouldn’t work. Later, this term became associated with ridding a computer of its errors.
  2. 4. Resolution that gave the president “all necessary measures to repel an armed attack against the armed forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.”
  3. 7. Jobs that became popular after WWII.
  4. 11. The term used to describe the desire for one nation to achieve weapon’s superiority over another.
  5. 13. Patent number 1,000,000.
  6. 15. First one sold for $8 in 1958.
  7. 17. Major health concern addressed by Jonas Salk who found the vaccine and schools began to inoculate children in 1955.
  8. 19. On May 4th, 1970, tragedy struck Kent State when 4 students were killed protesting the bombing of this country.
  9. 21. First company to adopt the “franchise” concept.
  10. 23. In March of 1965, the first of these arrived at Da Nang.
  11. 24. The U.S. begins to provide aid to this nation in 1955 in order to prevent the spread of Communism.
  12. 25. Name used to describe those Americans for the Vietnam War.
  13. 26. Ridding a computer of its errors.
  14. 27. In 1950, this company introduced the first cheese slices.
  15. 29. Appeared on all U.S. currency in 1955.
  16. 32. This nation is defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and forced to withdraw from Vietnam.
  17. 33. Retired from baseball in 1957.
  18. 34. The first one cost $1300.
  19. 36. Time period when current 60to 70 year olds were born.
  20. 38. Slang term used for the National Liberation Front which was a guerilla campaign to oust the South Vietnamese government for failure to recognize an all-Vietnam election.
  21. 40. The Open Kettle in Quincy, Mass. becomes this in 1950.
  22. 45. Communist group in Cambodia led by Pol Pot and who aided the North Vietnamese via the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
  23. 49. Interstate Highway System was part of his administration.
  24. 50. Name of the U.S. destroyer attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964.
  25. 52. Actor that symbolized the alienation and rebellion that many young people of the 50s sought.
  26. 53. Term first coined by a Cleveland disc jockey in 1953.
  27. 54. First Pizza Hut was here in 1958.
  28. 56. First television network to broadcast in color.
  29. 59. Name of a bombing campaign against North Vietnam launched by President Johnson in 1965.
  30. 61. Came to power in Cuba in 1959.
  31. 63. The one billionth can of this is sold in 1959.
  32. 64. Years that Everett Alvarez was held as a POW. The longest of any GI during the Vietnam War.
  33. 67. Initiative by Eisenhower to seek a peaceful use for nuclear power.
  34. 68. To prevent a country from receiving any foreign aid.
  35. 69. To be on the “cusp” of war.
Down
  1. 1. Johnson sought to finance the war by doing this rather than raising taxes.
  2. 3. By 1963, there were 16,000 of these in South Vietnam training Vietnamese soldiers and even flying combat missions.
  3. 5. First city with an elevator.
  4. 6. Theory declared by President Eisenhower that as one nation in Southeast Asia succumbed to Communism, then the rest would fall as well.
  5. 8. First candy breath mint.
  6. 9. By 1968, more than 538,000 of these we serving in Vietnam.
  7. 10. Jewish nation formed in 1948.
  8. 12. Teenager’s 1950s version of MTV.
  9. 14. This doctor was the first to run a sub 4-minute mile when he did it in 1954.
  10. 16. First state to enact safety-belt laws.
  11. 18. Articles published by the New York Times that exposed many of the government’s intelligence on the Vietnam War were inaccurate and misleading.
  12. 20. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand.
  13. 22. Host of American Bandstand.
  14. 28. Davy Crockett caused this animal to be protected.
  15. 30. Average age of an American GI in Vietnam.
  16. 31. Term used in the 1960s to describe developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America that became “attractive” to Communist nations.
  17. 35. These individuals proved to be very difficult for U.S. troops to fight because they were “farmers by day and guerillas by night” as one military commander described them.
  18. 37. Danny’s Coffee Shop becomes this in 1959.
  19. 39. January 30th, 1968.
  20. 40. First credit card.
  21. 41. Adult’s favorite T.V. show in the 1950s.
  22. 42. First state to have a three-colored light traffic system.
  23. 43. The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a link between North and South Vietnam, by way of these countries, that was used as a supply route by the Communists.
  24. 44. Canal taken by Egypt from Great Britain in 1956.
  25. 46. The U.S. military used these to destroy the jungles where many of the Vietcong hid.
  26. 47. To cut off all trade with another country.
  27. 48. Time period of strained relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  28. 51. Began writing The Cat in the Hat in 1957 under this name.
  29. 55. Hilary and Torgay summit it in 1953.
  30. 57. Nation’s worth.
  31. 58. “Fear” that was ingrained into the American public during the Cold War.
  32. 60. In 1952, this company introduced the first pocket-sized transistor radio.
  33. 62. Minimum wage in 1956.
  34. 65. Name used to describe those Americans against the Vietnam War.
  35. 66. On board Sputnik II.