Across
- 1. A Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information
- 3. selling large quantities of goods at very low prices and trying to sell the good quickly to turn over the entire inventory in a short period of time
- 6. A term used by journalists to describe young urban professionals - money makers during the 1980s
- 7. an evangelist who conducts regularly televised religious programs
- 9. a nickname given to the Northeast due to the decline of industry
- 12. founded to try to stop underage drinking and drunk driving in general
- 15. ocated in Beijing, China, it was the site of student protest demonstrations against the communist government
- 16. a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s
Down
- 2. Program created during Reagan’s presidency to protect the U.S from incoming missiles
- 4. A person who believes government power, particularly in the economy, should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom
- 5. A policy of economic government restructuring instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in the 1980s
- 8. A person who generally believes the government should take an active role in the economy and in social programs but should not dictate social behavior
- 10. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- 11. A scandal during the Reagan administration that dealt with the illegal funding of the Contras in their war with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua using money gained through the sale of weapons to Iran
- 13. The Sun Belt is a region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the Southeast and Southwest
- 14. A term coined by critics of Reagan’s economic policies; also referred to as supply-side economics, Reaganomics, or “trickle-down economics”