Democracy and Protest Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Navalny, Russian opposition leader who criticized Putin and called for protests
  2. 2. Power Revolution, 1986 protest in the Philippines that removed dictator Marcos
  3. 5. Region in Spain where people protested to become independent
  4. 7. Pinochet, Military leader who took over Chile in a 1973 coup
  5. 8. Movement, Peaceful protest in Malaysia calling for fair elections
  6. 10. Indigenous rebel group in Mexico that protested poverty and unfair treatment
  7. 11. Spring, Wave of protests across the Arab world starting in 2010 demanding democracy
  8. 12. Polish labor union that helped end communism in Poland
  9. 15. Left-wing group that overthrew Nicaragua’s dictator in 1979
  10. 17. Civil War, Long war where Indigenous people fought against an unfair government
  11. 18. Mandela, Leader who fought apartheid and became South Africa’s first Black president
Down
  1. 1. 43, 43 Mexican students who disappeared in 2014, causing national outrage
  2. 3. Pro-democracy movement in Indonesia after President Suharto stepped down
  3. 4. Uprising, 1980 protest in South Korea where many students were killed by soldiers
  4. 5. Revolution, Peaceful revolution in Portugal in 1974 that ended a dictatorship
  5. 6. Uprising, 1976 protest by South African students against racist school laws
  6. 9. Dictatorship, Government ruled by the military, like Brazil or Chile in the 1970s
  7. 13. of the Plaza de Mayo, Argentine mothers who protested their children disappearing under a dictatorship
  8. 14. Liberation War, 1971 war where Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan
  9. 16. Square, 1989 student protest in China that was stopped by the army