Standard 23 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Dec. 1991 the Russian government replaced their communist government with a new democratic government
  2. 4. political reform of transparency in government in the USSR
  3. 5. nickname for Ronald Reagan’s economic policy that included budget cuts, tax cuts and increased defense spending; if Americans had more money to spend the economy would improve
  4. 7. President most known for the events of 9/11 and the anti-terrorist response that followed
  5. 15. (Text version of the numbers)September 11, 2001; terrorist attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon and failed attack resulting in crash in Pennsylvania; led by al-Qaeda
  6. 16. Al Gore won the popular vote; George W. Bush won in electoral college 271 to 266; Gore legally contested but Bush declared winner
  7. 18. series of actions in order to fight al –Qaeda network and other terrorist groups; GW Bush increased federal spending to finance it
  8. 19. (SDI)--”Star Wars”; anti-ballistic missile shield
  9. 21. a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office
  10. 22. 41st president (1989-1993); Republican; foreign policy, including Persian Gulf War, dominated Bush’s presidency.
Down
  1. 1. security force charged with protecting the United States from terrorist attacks and responding to natural disasters.
  2. 3. Soviet Union leader during Ronald Reagan’s presidency who began the policies of Perestroika and Glasnost; leads to the end of the USSR
  3. 6. President during the 1980s whose presidency helped shape American politics to this day; wanted to decrease the size and role of the federal government
  4. 8. 42nd President; helped bring U.S. out of economic struggles of the mid 1990s
  5. 9. March 2003 American & British invasion of Iraq in search of WMD’s
  6. 10. House of Representatives charged him with perjury and obstruction of justice;money related to a real estate deal & lying under oath about inappropriate relationship; acquitted by the Senate & allowed to serve out remainder of term
  7. 11. invasion of Afghanistan by U.S. military and allied forces
  8. 12. (1917-1991) Communist Russia; USSR
  9. 13. (1947-1991) period of tension between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies
  10. 14. economic rebuilding policy in the USSR
  11. 17. gives government the authority to look into persons suspected of terrorist actions (wiretaps)
  12. 20. Election of 2008; Democrat Illinois; 1st African American President who brought social and political change to the U.S.