1950s Review Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Type of jobs reserved for women during the 1950s (2 words)
  2. 5. Style of government where property is owned by the government instead of individual people
  3. 6. President who ordered the A-bombs to be dropped on Japan and who said Communism was America's greatest threat after WWII
  4. 8. Acting or looking the same as everybody else
  5. 11. Popular president who served as a general during WWII
  6. 12. Neighborhoods outside the city centers where many white families moved during the 1950s
  7. 13. Activist and NAACP member who refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a bus boycott (2 words)
  8. 14. The act of keeping people separated based on race
  9. 15. Senator who claimed to have a list of Communist spies working in the US government
  10. 18. Term for Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler
Down
  1. 1. Where General Douglas MacArthur ordered an amphibious invasion to drive the North Korean military out of South Korea
  2. 2. Expected patterns of behavior based on whether you are a man or woman (2 words)
  3. 4. The deal that put the Korean War on pause
  4. 7. Arkansas city where African-American students had to be escorted to school by soldiers before they were allowed to attend a formerly all-white high school (2 words)
  5. 9. Network of highways created by Dwight Eisenhower (2 words)
  6. 10. Term for the explosion in population after WWII (2 words)
  7. 16. Rivalry between the US and Soviet Union but where no actual shots were fired (2 words)
  8. 17. Peninsula that featured lots of fighting between the US and China during the Cold War