Across
- 4. a defense strategy implemented by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to address the Kennedy administration's skepticism of Dwight Eisenhower's New Look and its policy of massive retaliation.
- 8. several large suburban housing developments created in the United States
- 9. the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state.
- 10. he ideological-political conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe during the Cold War
- 12. a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.
- 13. an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines
- 14. a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans
- 18. the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict.
- 19. a period marked by a significant increase of birth rate.
- 23. the race to send the first man to space
- 24. an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states, of which 28 are in Europe and the other 2 in North America.
Down
- 1. try to contain Russia from spreading communism
- 2. radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion or accident and gradually fall back as dust or in precipitation
- 3. a difference of opinions between one generation and another regarding beliefs, politics, or values.
- 5. first russian spaceship to reach the moon
- 6. an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s
- 7. allocates more than $30 billion for the construction of some 41,000 miles of interstate highways
- 11. used by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him.
- 15. A music and film icon whose natural blend of country, pop, and R&B sold millions and became the cornerstone of rock & roll.
- 16. a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States
- 17. to investigate the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, at Dallas, Texas.
- 18. a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 as well as encircling and separating West Berlin from East German territory.
- 20. an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe.
- 21. an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
- 22. an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance.