Democracy and Protest Crossword
Across
- 3. Economic idea focusing on free markets and less government control
- 4. Spring, Wave of protests across the Arab world starting in 2010 demanding democracy
- 7. Power Revolution, 1986 protest in the Philippines that removed dictator Marcos
- 8. Uprising, 1980 protest in South Korea where many students were killed by soldiers
- 10. Polish labor union that helped end communism in Poland
- 12. Region in Spain where people protested to become independent
- 14. Revolution, Peaceful revolution in Portugal in 1974 that ended a dictatorship
- 15. 43, 43 Mexican students who disappeared in 2014, causing national outrage
- 16. Tide, Left-wing political movement in Latin America against neoliberalism
- 17. Left-wing group that overthrew Nicaragua’s dictator in 1979
- 19. Square, 1989 student protest in China that was stopped by the army
- 22. Pro-democracy movement in Indonesia after President Suharto stepped down
Down
- 1. Liberation War, 1971 war where Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan
- 2. Civil War, Long war where Indigenous people fought against an unfair government
- 5. of the Plaza de Mayo, Argentine mothers who protested their children disappearing under a dictatorship
- 6. Pinochet, Military leader who took over Chile in a 1973 coup
- 9. Dictatorship, Government ruled by the military, like Brazil or Chile in the 1970s
- 11. Indigenous rebel group in Mexico that protested poverty and unfair treatment
- 13. Movement, Peaceful protest in Malaysia calling for fair elections
- 18. Uprising, 1976 protest by South African students against racist school laws
- 20. Navalny, Russian opposition leader who criticized Putin and called for protests
- 21. Mandela, Leader who fought apartheid and became South Africa’s first Black president