Unit 5 Test Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. Known as the hydrogen bomb, it had a force of 1 million tons of TNT.
  2. 4. From the increase in nuclear stockpiles and any nuclear attack would result in total destruction, the United States and the Soviet Union was not willing to consider a direct attack against its opponent.
  3. 6. He was President Dwight Eisenhower’s Secretary of State throughout the 1950s.
  4. 7. He was an American pilot whose spy plane was shot down in the Soviet Union, starting the U-2 Spy Plane Incident.
  5. 12. It was a social and artistic faction that advocated unrestrained self-expression and nonconformity with mainstream culture.
  6. 16. He was an African American lawyer who with the help of other NAACP lawyers won 29 out of the 32 cases argued before the Supreme Court.
  7. 19. This organization was formed in 1960; it coordinated sit-ins and other protests to provide young African Americans a larger role in the civil rights movement.
  8. 20. A company that offers similar products or services in many locations.
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  1. 1. President Eisenhower warned that this entity was gaining too much influence in American political affairs.
  2. 3. A seamstress and an NAACP officer that helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  3. 5. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders formed this organization in 1957; this group advocated to work for civil rights through peaceful protests.
  4. 8. A Cold War military strategy that intended to discourage a nuclear attack by committing to launch a devastating counterstrike.
  5. 9. He helped coordinate the efforts of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which dealt with the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  6. 10. An international contest between countries seeking a military advantage over each other.
  7. 11. This military alliance linked the Soviet Union with seven Eastern European countries.
  8. 13. President Dwight Eisenhower concluded that the United States would defend the Middle East from any attack by a communist country.
  9. 14. The unprecedented population surge in the United States after World War II.
  10. 15. He developed a polio vaccine during the early 1950s.
  11. 17. Means of communication that reach large audiences.
  12. 18. He was the leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin.