Chapter 23 Terms

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Across
  1. 6. First African American to play for a major league baseball team-Brooklyn Dodgers
  2. 10. U.S. provided massive financial aid to help rebuild European economies ($12.5 Billion).
  3. 13. North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was the nations of Europe and the U.S. formed a defensive alliance, that if there was an attack on any one nation it would be considered an attack on all.
  4. 14. he became president after Roosevelt died; dropped the atomic bombs; little experience with foreign policy; elected a county judge; made his mark on American policy; charted course peacetime; led US into NATO.
  5. 15. A leap in child births that occurred from 1945-1960
  6. 16. America's hero of the Pacific in World War II, was placed in charge of the UN military forces.
Down
  1. 1. He had served as Allied commander in Europe during World War II and later was the commander of NATO. Promised to end corruption in Washington and the war in Korea.
  2. 2. suburban homes with standardized plans and prefabricated parts to put together homes in record times and with cost-cutting efficiency.
  3. 3. Term used to describe the panic in the United States started by the violent activities of a few leftists following World War I; later also used to refer to the widespread fear of communism.
  4. 4. Paid for schooling which modernized the workforce
  5. 5. This cut off supplies to the capital of West Germany. The Soviets announced that any attempt to cross the land would be considered an act of aggression and war. It demonstrated the resolve of democratic nations to oppose communist repression
  6. 7. A period of tension and military build up between the Soviet Union and the United States.
  7. 8. The symbolic wall that separated the free nations of Western Europe from the Communist countries of Eastern Europe.
  8. 9. Guaranteed by the government for homes and farms and was the major cause of the long postwar economic boom
  9. 11. International organization that began with delegates from fifty nations writing a charter for the organization; includes two major agencies-General Assembly and Security Council.
  10. 12. Latitude dividing Communist North Korea and non-Communist South Korea.