Across
- 5. Dramatic increase in birthrate, especially in the years following World War II/
- 7. 1958 measure designed to improve science and mathematics instruction in schools.
- 9. Average annual income per person.
- 11. Corporation made up of three or more unrelated businesses.
- 13. Music popular in the 1950s that grew out of rhythm and blues.
Down
- 1. The social and economic transition from wartime to peacetime.
- 2. A business that contracts with a large parent company to offer certain goods and services.
- 3. President Eisenhower's approach to government, described as "conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings".
- 4. In the 1950s, a person who criticized American society as apathetic and conformist.
- 6. Acronym for the agency created for space exploration in 1958.
- 8. A tiny circuit device invented in 1947 that amplifies, controls, and generates electrical signals.
- 10. Law passed by Congress in 1947 that allowed the President to declare an 80-day cooling off period when strikes impacted industries that affected national interest.
- 12. Law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education.