The 1950s

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Across
  1. 4. was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program
  2. 6. Traditional media such as radio, newspapers and magazines remained vital ad conduits during the early years of the decade, but TV quickly became a cornerstone of many advertisers' national media plans.
  3. 8. The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe.
  4. 11. to connect the principal metropolitan areas, cities, and industrial centers; to serve the national defense
  5. 12. forms of 1950s popular culture, such as movies and television, sought to entertain, while reinforcing values such as religious faith, patriotism, and conformity to societal norms.
  6. 15. an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda
  7. 16. an alliance of countries from Europe and North America.
  8. 18. Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, jump blues, as well as country music.
  9. 19. Much of this poverty was "invisible," affecting Blacks in urban neighborhoods and whites in depressed rural areas. Middle-class Americans never saw the misery in other sectors of American society.
Down
  1. 1. was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
  2. 2. was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957.
  3. 3. The suburbs became an increasingly popular location to live, and affordable housing caused a great increase in the population there.
  4. 5. a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
  5. 7. A period in the United States history when everyone was so caught up in containment of communism
  6. 9. he generation of people who were born between the mid-1940s and the early 1960s.
  7. 10. The automobile and the Interstate became the American symbol of individuality and freedom, and, for the first time, automobile buyers accepted that the automobile they drove indicated their social standing and level of affluence.
  8. 13. The United Nations is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
  9. 14. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage under the U.S. Espionage Act of 1917.
  10. 15. a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era.
  11. 17. Much of this poverty was "invisible," affecting Blacks in urban neighborhoods and whites in depressed rural areas.