AMW 1950s Review

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Across
  1. 5. The planned, systematic elimination of an identifiable group within a society.
  2. 9. The policy that ended Native American special status and sought to mainstream Native Americans into the rest of American society.
  3. 10. Mideast crisis in 1957 cause by a British/French/Israeli invasion of Egypt.
  4. 11. The National group set up to promote better educational programs so that we could compete with the USSR in space.
  5. 12. US President during the Korean War
  6. 13. Nomadic European group targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
  7. 14. Early and popular US Rock singer
  8. 16. The name of the woman who refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus in 1955.
  9. 17. Member of the group who embraced the "Beat Movement/Culture"
  10. 18. The US spy organization
  11. 19. The name given to the tactics used by Hitler during WWII
  12. 20. The conference at the end of WWII that set the conditions of the postwar peace.
  13. 23. Ran against JFK in 1960
  14. 24. The idea that buying products is seen as a kind of success - rather than making things on one's own.
  15. 26. Country where the United Nations went to war to repel an invasion in 1950.
  16. 27. The non-fighting war between the US and USSR, 1949-1991.
  17. 28. The court case that began the end of required school segregation by race.
Down
  1. 1. The raid on Tokyo during WWII that showed the Japanese that we could bomb them in their home cities.
  2. 2. Policy adopted by President Truman and followed by President Eisenhower to keep Communism from spreading.
  3. 3. Turning point of WWII in the Pacific
  4. 4. The Wisconsin senator who put suspected Communists on television as they were being interviewed by the US Senate
  5. 6. The name of the doctrine that stated that the US would help any nation fighting a communist group within their borders.
  6. 7. The name of the highway system developed by President Eisenhower to improve US defense capabilities.
  7. 8. The French President 1959-1969
  8. 12. New entertainment media in the 1950s that began to change how people spent their free time.
  9. 15. Turning point of WWII in Europe
  10. 19. Taking a nation to the edge of war to get them to negotiate a settlement to a crisis.
  11. 21. The kind of society that simply replaces items rather than making them last as long as possible.
  12. 22. A program run by the US government that brought Mexican workers to the US to work on farms.
  13. 25. Made the Polio Vaccine