the 1970-2000
Across
- 2. special interest group concerned with the 2nd Amendment
- 6. enforced by U.S. Fish and Wildlife, tries to protect and rehabilitate populations of animals from becoming extinct
- 8. president during the Persian Gulf War
- 9. president who created the department of energy
- 11. North American trade agreement between U.S., Mexico, and Canada to reduce trade barriers and allow for the freedom of movement for capital
- 14. Ronald Reagan's modernization of the U.S. military
- 17. nicknamed "Star Wars," this was Reagan's plan to use battle stations in space to shoot other satellites with lasers
- 19. alliance of religious groups that opposed abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment
- 21. meeting between Israel and Egypt to create a lasting peace between the two countries
- 22. organization of countries that are major oil exporters who try and control global oil prices and production
- 25. agency charged with protecting the environment and water from pollution
- 26. trade agreement that reduce barriers throughout the world
Down
- 1. global institution that moderates trade agreements and currency exchange between countries
- 3. Supreme Court ruling that found that students and teachers had 1st Amendment protections in public schools
- 4. 53 Americans are taken hostage by Islamic revolutionaries
- 5. normalizing of a relationship by relaxing tensions
- 7. practice where a company purchases its own stocks and pays the CEO in stocks to reduce stock supply and drive up the prices of those remaining stocks as a way of inflating the value of the company
- 8. president after Nixon who pardoned Nixon for his crimes
- 10. conservative think tank
- 12. former actor and governor of California that became president in the 1980s
- 13. alternative name for the First Iraq War
- 15. scandal where Nixon's campaign broke into the DNC headquarters to wiretap their phones
- 16. Reagan's economic plan to cut taxes for corporations and the rich because it would trickle down in job creation for the poor
- 18. when the House of Representatives votes to remove the president of the United States
- 20. president who signed the Families Medical Leave Act, balanced the budget, and raised the minimum wage
- 23. scandal where the Reagan administration and CIA were selling weapons to Iran to fund Nicaraguan cartels attempting to overthrow the government
- 24. return to containment policy but with aggressive military intervention in other countries