Democracy and Protest Crossword

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