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