90s Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. A 1995 domestic terrorist bombing of a federal building, killing 168 people.
  2. 3. A Black man beaten by LAPD officers in 1991, sparking national outrage.
  3. 8. 1990–91 U.S.-led war to remove Iraq from Kuwait.
  4. 10. 1992 riots after the acquittal of officers who beat Rodney King.
  5. 12. Global U.S.-led effort to combat terrorism after 9/11.
  6. 13. Ted Kaczynski, who mailed bombs to protest modern technology from 1978–1995.
  7. 17. A bombing at the Atlanta Olympics that killed 2 and injured over 100.
  8. 18. Unscripted television featuring real people and situations, booming in the late 1990s.
Down
  1. 1. A 1999 school shooting where two students killed 13 people at Columbine High School.
  2. 4. Changes to U.S. immigration laws to address border security and citizenship.
  3. 5. O.J. Simpson’s 1995 murder trial, ending in a controversial acquittal.
  4. 6. President Clinton’s 1998 impeachment over lying under oath and obstruction of justice.
  5. 7. 1993 truck bomb attack on the World Trade Center.
  6. 9. 1998 terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
  7. 11. 1994 trade agreement between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
  8. 14. 2000 terrorist bombing of a U.S. Navy ship in Yemen.
  9. 15. 2001 terrorist attacks where planes hit the Twin Towers and Pentagon.
  10. 16. 1990s civil war involving ethnic conflict and U.S./NATO intervention.
  11. 19. Fears of computer failures when the year changed to 2000.