Unit 4 Keywords

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Across
  1. 2. This natural disaster hit New Orleans in 2005, making the Bush administration look bad
  2. 5. A rapid increase in the value of houses followed in a sharp decline in their value
  3. 6. This law passed after 9/11 expanded the tools used to fight terrorism and improved communication between law enforcement and intelligence agencies
  4. 7. Signed into law in 2002. NCLB addresses accountability of school personnel for student achievement with the expectation that every child will demonstrate proficiency in Reading, Math, and Science.
  5. 8. federal program of disability and retirement benefits that covers most working people
  6. 11. An expansion of medicaid, most of employers must provide health insurance, have insurance or face surtax, prevents rejection based on pre-existing condition. Also referred to as "Obamacare", signed into law in 2010.
  7. 12. Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population
  8. 13. Initiated by President George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the broadly defined war on terror aimed to weed out terrorist operatives and their supporters throughout the world.
  9. 16. Leader of Al Qaeda
  10. 17. An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.
  11. 20. A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older
  12. 21. Was a dictator in Iraq who tried to take over Iran and Kuwait violently in order to gain the land and the resources.
  13. 22. A terrorist group trying to seize territory in Iraq and Syria through extreme acts of terrorism
  14. 23. The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes
  15. 24. Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon; led to a focus on eliminating terrorism.
  16. 25. During Bush's second term the worst financial crisis in the US since the Great Depression
Down
  1. 1. the unlawful entry of a person into a nation
  2. 3. U.S. ideology of former liberals turning to conservative causes and methods
  3. 4. Islamist terrorist organization that launched a series of attacks against U.S.
  4. 9. charges with lying under oath, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and abuse of power in response to the Monica Lewinsky affair
  5. 10. American missiles and bombers destroyed targets in Iraq, then under the UN banner, coalition forces pushed across the desert to liberate Kuwait, Iraqi blew up hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells
  6. 14. allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada.
  7. 15. Law that prohibits employers from discriminating against people with physical disabilities
  8. 18. A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad.
  9. 19. Use of 14th Amendment's equal protection clause to stop the Florida recount in the election of 2000.