Foreign Policy After Vietnam

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Across
  1. 1. Islamic ___________ was a problem during Reagan’s administration, especially in Lebanon, Libya, and Egypt (where an attack involving a hijacked airliner was thwarted by a US operation).
  2. 3. The pro-West but repressive ____ of Iran fled the country in 1979 due to a revolution.
  3. 5. The US had supported this Jewish state since its founding in 1948.
  4. 9. Carter negotiated the ___________ treaty with the Soviets but withdrew it from Senate consideration after the Soviet invasion of *_______________*.
  5. 10. Iranian revolutionaries stormed the US __________ in Teheran and took 53 Americans hostage because the US accepted the deposed ____ for medical treatment.
  6. 12. The US ordered troops to liberate the Caribbean island of ___________ from its new radically communist government.
  7. 13. The country where Carter’s attempt to improve human rights resulted in a revolution that created a Marxist government just as repressive but also more hostile to the US
  8. 15. At _________________, Carter negotiated a peace deal between Israel and Egypt that included Egypt’s recognition of Israel’s right to exist/sovereignty.
  9. 16. Guerillas organized by the CIA to fight the Communist Sandinista government of *____________*
  10. 17. The _________ Docrine pledged America’s support to insurgent groups battling Communist governments in the Third World (anywhere not a stable, wealthy democracy or a solidly communist nation behind the Iron Curtain).
Down
  1. 2. The US supported the _____________ insurgents in *_______________* against the Soviet invasion, leading to the Soviet army’s withdrawal in 1989.
  2. 4. The Iranian ____________ _____________ was Carter’s biggest foreign policy nightmare and a huge reason he is not re-elected.
  3. 6. OPEC announced an oil _________ against the US because the US supported Israel against the 1973 attack by Egypt and Syria.
  4. 7. A fanatical _________ extremist, the Ayatollah Khomeini, took power in Iran after the shah fled and denounced both the US and the USSR.
  5. 8. The cornerstone of Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy
  6. 11. The US signed a treaty to return control of the ___________ Canal to the country it was located in by the year 2000.
  7. 14. In 1979 (while Americans were still hostages in Iran), the Soviets invaded ________________ to “help” the unpopular Communist government there.