The Fifties

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Across
  1. 5. Beat Generation writer who penned On the Road
  2. 10. This TV star ate a lot of chocolates in a famous comedy scene [Hint: I love]
  3. 15. The precedent established by Plessy v. Ferguson
  4. 17. She did not move to the back of the bus
  5. 20. Suburban housing innovator who produced Levittowns.
  6. 21. The only Marilyn Monroe husband (of three) who was also a New York Yankee
  7. 22. Elvis and many other musicians appeared on his show
  8. 25. Author of The Catcher in the Rye
  9. 26. Parks and King teamed up for a bus boycott in this Alabama city
  10. 28. Khrushchev’s preferred drink at the Kitchen Debates
  11. 31. Shot down, tried, sentenced, and exchanged for a Soviet spy on a German bridge
  12. 34. Southern senator who ran as a Dixiecrat in 1948
  13. 36. This country protested the Soviet Union in 1956 and also defeated them in water polo
  14. 38. Agency created to help the US catch up with the Soviets in space
  15. 40. Middle Eastern nation where the CIA helped restore the Shah
  16. 42. Southern states’ rights party of 1948
  17. 43. Forrest Gump fictionally taught this king to dance
  18. 44. Democrat who lost in ‘52 and lost worse in ‘56 [first name]
  19. 46. Ike said, “I shall go to __________.”
  20. 47. This splinter party didn’t like how Harry treated the unions
Down
  1. 1. Followed FDR; preceded Eisenhower
  2. 2. State where Emmett Till was murdered
  3. 3. “Separate educational facilities are inherently ____________.”
  4. 4. The lunch counter that four students in Greensboro desegregated
  5. 6. Nixon v. Khrushchev, next to the stove
  6. 7. Leader restored to power in Iran by the CIA
  7. 8. Her case caused school to desegregate
  8. 9. __________ retaliation: US policy emphasizing the threat large-scale nuclear retaliation
  9. 11. #42
  10. 12. __________ Williams: a war veteran and the last major league player to hit above .400
  11. 13. A munitions worker in World War II whose fame--and dress!--would blow up in the 50s
  12. 14. First Soviet satellite launched into space in 1957
  13. 16. A method of resistance used at Woolworths
  14. 18. Causeless rebel
  15. 19. Toy Story 2 character who satisfied kids’ space interest post-Sputnik
  16. 23. Where nine kids desegregated a school
  17. 24. Jackie’s big league city
  18. 27. Headline: “___________ defeats Truman.”
  19. 29. Iranian prime minister overthrown with CIA’s Operation Ajax
  20. 30. __________Resolution: Congressional measure authorizing force to defend Taiwan
  21. 32. Biker who starred in The Wild One. So cool.
  22. 33. Central American country where the CIA helped oust a left-leaning government
  23. 35. Host of American Bandstand
  24. 37. Vice-President whose car got attacked in Venezuela
  25. 39. DJ who popularized the term “rock and roll”
  26. 41. Covert operations agency used extensively during the 1950s
  27. 45. Commercial jingle and campaign button in ‘52 and ‘56: “I like ___________.”