The Cold War and the 50s

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Across
  1. 2. On board Sputnik II.
  2. 4. Soviet Union’s response to NATO.
  3. 7. Wrote book claiming that women should remain at home so that their children grow up stable and secure.
  4. 11. Man's best friend
  5. 12. Teenager’s 1950s version of MTV.
  6. 17. “Fear” that was ingrained into the American public during the Cold War.
  7. 18. Korea was divided by this “line”.
  8. 20. First company to adopt the “franchise” concept.
  9. 22. Jewish nation formed in 1948.
  10. 23. Major health concern addressed by Jonas Salk who found the vaccine and schools began to inoculate children in 1955.
  11. 24. War that ended in 1953.
  12. 29. This country was excluded from the UN’s Security Council due to Communism.
  13. 30. Setup in Berlin by Truman to aid people trying to flee Eastern Europe.
  14. 32. The United States’ reaction was to develop this when the Soviet Union successfully testing an atomic bomb.
  15. 35. Communist forces took control in 1949.
  16. 38. Churchill’s description of the stranglehold that communism had in Eastern Europe.
  17. 41. Reason MacArthur was relieved of his command.
  18. 43. Long-range rocket that can travel from one continent to another.
  19. 45. England, France, and the United States divided this nation up after WWII.
  20. 46. 15 nations throughout Eastern Europe and Northern Asia made up this nation.
  21. 47. Initiative by Eisenhower to seek a peaceful use for nuclear power.
  22. 48. Jobs that became popular after WWII.
  23. 49. Ridding a computer of its errors.
  24. 53. __________ and Greece both received aid from the United States as a result of the Truman Doctrine.
  25. 54. The United States relied on this to “deliver” their nuclear missiles.
  26. 55. 20% of their population died in WWII.
  27. 56. Proponent for nuclear power wrote Our Friend the Atom.
  28. 57. Launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
  29. 58. Came to power in Cuba in 1959.
  30. 60. Europe had to devise a plan in which the United States would finance Europe’s rebuilding efforts after WWII.
  31. 61. Large marsupial
  32. 63. The one billionth can of this is sold in 1959.
  33. 64. West Germany (abbv.)
  34. 66. Appeared on all U.S. currency in 1955.
  35. 67. Time period when current 45 to 60 year olds were born.
  36. 68. Soviet Union’s response to NATO.
Down
  1. 1. Basis of the United States’ foreign policy on Communism during the Cold War.
  2. 2. The Open Kettle in Quincy, Mass. becomes this in 1950.
  3. 3. Along with the U.S. and Western Europe, many Eastern European refugees escaped to this country during the Cold War.
  4. 5. FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met here to discuss the “dividing” of Germany after World War II.
  5. 6. 19 hydrogen bombs were tested here by the United States.
  6. 7. Patent number 1,000,000.
  7. 8. Began writing The Cat in the Hat in 1957 under this name.
  8. 9. To cut off all trade with another country.
  9. 10. Has a trunk
  10. 13. Book by Betty Friedan that symbolized the adverse attitude to preventing women to be creative.
  11. 14. Interstate Highway System was part of his administration.
  12. 15. Adult’s favorite T.V. show in the 1950s.
  13. 16. Theory used to describe what was happening around the world when one nation would fall to Communism, then another, and so on.
  14. 19. Leader of UN forces in Korea.
  15. 21. Nation’s worth.
  16. 25. Time period of strained relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  17. 26. Actor that symbolized the alienation and rebellion that many young people of the 50s sought.
  18. 27. To prevent a country from receiving any foreign aid.
  19. 28. The term used to describe the desire for one nation to achieve weapon’s superiority over another.
  20. 31. Danny’s Coffee Shop becomes this in 1959.
  21. 33. Worst threat due to nuclear war.
  22. 34. River that separates North Korea and China.
  23. 36. Commission setup to monitor Communist tendencies throughout the U.S. (abbv.)
  24. 37. Hilary and Torgay summit it in 1953.
  25. 39. “Organization” that developed as a result of the Soviet Union’s veto power in the UN.
  26. 40. Canal taken by Egypt from Great Britain in 1956.
  27. 42. Flying mammal
  28. 44. Host of American Bandstand.
  29. 45. First Pizza Hut was here in 1958.
  30. 46. His book symbolized the hardships of the Soviet Union.
  31. 50. Port city in South Korea that was able to withstand North Korean forces.
  32. 51. Term first coined by a Cleveland disc jockey in 1953.
  33. 52. To be on the “cusp” of war.
  34. 59. Likes to chase mice
  35. 62. First one sold for 8$ in 1958.
  36. 65. East Germany (abbv.)