Modern United States Vocabulary Puzzle
Across
- 1. Economic policies of Reagan. AKA "Trickle-down Economics" Deregulated businesses and lowered tax rates.
- 4. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political gains
- 7. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
- 9. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- 10. Anti-American Muslim militants stormed the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, taking all of its occupants hostage
- 11. A policy initiated in the USSR that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo, towards a market based economy and society.
- 12. "Openness": Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues
- 13. The US secretly sold arms to Iran for the release of hostages, and illegally using the proceeds to finance rebels in Nicaragua
Down
- 2. A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race
- 3. Book about the harmful effects of DDT which began the environmental protection movement.
- 5. A period of slow economic growth and high unemployment while prices rise
- 6. After 9/11: Act used to fight terrorism, justified violating citizens' right to privacy in the hunt for terrorists
- 8. North American Free Trade Agreement