Modern America

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Across
  1. 3. conservative president in 1980s connected to "trinkle down" economics and Iran-Contra
  2. 4. president forced to resign in scandal, went to China, and behind Vietnamization
  3. 11. organization to protect environment
  4. 13. elected president in 1992; impeached; Balkan Crisis
  5. 14. taking of hostages at US embassy in Iran
  6. 16. post 9/11 US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq
  7. 20. these broke in New Oreans during hurricane, flooding the city
  8. 22. 2005 hurricane that hit New Orleans
  9. 23. president associated with No Child Left Behind, 9/11, War on Terror, Patriot Act, Hurricane Katrina
  10. 24. this barrier in Germany fell in 1989.
Down
  1. 1. president elected in 1976 that brokered Camp David Accords
  2. 2. conservation Christian political organization important during 1980s
  3. 5. peace agreement between Israel and Egypt
  4. 6. gave law enforcement great latitude to monitor phone and digital communication post 9/11
  5. 7. elected president in 1988; Gulf War; "read my lips, no more taxes"
  6. 8. conservative public policy research organization founded in 80s
  7. 9. scandal involving illegal selling of weapons and illegal funding of terrorists in Latin America
  8. 10. head of Soviet Union in 80s that tried to modernize it; there at end of the war
  9. 12. pardoned Richard Nixon
  10. 15. name for scandal involving breaking in to opponent political party offices
  11. 17. "trinkle down" economics
  12. 18. elected in 2008 as first black president
  13. 19. first challenge of US post Cold War; involved kicking Sadam Hussein out of Kuwait when Iraq invaded
  14. 21. 1970s oil embargo by OPEC