Unit 11 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. A supporter of a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.
  2. 4. A federal pardon in the United States is the action of the President of the United States that completely sets aside the punishment for a federal crime.
  3. 5. Says that if the President becomes unable to do his job, the Vice President becomes the President.
  4. 7. Refers to the technological, political, economic, financial, and cultural exchanges between peoples and nations that have made and continue to make the world a more interconnected and interdependent place.
  5. 9. The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry.
  6. 10. A popular term referring to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. president (1981–1989). His policies called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets.
  7. 12. He helped bring about a stock-market surge, low unemployment, minimal inflation, and general prosperity. He balanced the national budget for the first time in 30 years.
  8. 15. North American Free Trade Agreement, controversial trade pact signed in 1992 that gradually eliminated most tariffs and other trade barriers on products and services passing between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
  9. 16. Characteristically shows respect for American traditions, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to the states, referred to more simply as limited government and states' rights.
  10. 17. The difference between the money the federal government takes in, called receipts, and what it spends, called outlays each year.
  11. 19. The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations calling for democracy, free speech and a free press in China.
  12. 20. Glasnost was taken to mean increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union
  13. 21. A term for various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries. It has also been used to describe the emergence of Eastern European parties after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Down
  1. 1. A series of agreements that were signed in August 1975, during the period of Detente, by leaders of the USA, the USSR and 35 nations who were members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
  2. 3. A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense.
  3. 6. Proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.
  4. 8. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 1984, running alongside former vice president Walter Mondale.
  5. 11. A military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier.
  6. 13. The restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system, in an attempt to end the Brezhnev Stagnation. Perestroika allowed more independent actions from various ministries and introduced many market-like reforms.
  7. 14. Passed in 2001 to improve the abilities of U.S. law enforcement to detect and deter terrorism.
  8. 18. An international terrorist group committed to opposing foreign power and what it sees as corrupt Islamic regimes. It was founded by former Mujahideen forces that opposed Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.