Democracy and Protest Crossword (Clare Bates)

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Across
  1. 2. King of Thailand that stepped in to calm the Black May protests in 1992.
  2. 4. The Thai military leader who had helped lead a coup in 1991, but also broke his promise not to enter politics in 1992.
  3. 7. The war that
  4. 8. The Spanish ________,period of peaceful protests and political changes in Spain, helped the country move to democracy.
  5. 10. The first democratically elected president of Poland
  6. 12. The _____ of the Plaza de Mayo are a group of brave Argentine mothers who began protesting in 1977 against the acts of the Argentine government
  7. 13. Square in Cairo where in 2011 protestors demanded that President Mubarak, who had ruled for nearly 30 years, step down.
  8. 15. The war in Argentina during a period where a military dictatorship ruled the country with strong punishments against those seen as "threats."
  9. 17. An uprising of an indigenous group to protest the Mexican government, beginning on the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect.
  10. 18. The name of the powerful pro-democracy protest that took place in South Korea in 1987.
Down
  1. 1. A former Chinese government leader who supported political reform and was seen as a symbol of hope.
  2. 3. The wall that split East and West Germany
  3. 5. Filipino President who was forced to step down from a 20 year dictatorship after the People Power Revolution.
  4. 6. The first independent trade union in a country ruled by a communist government.
  5. 8. The square where thousands of people—mostly college students—gathered to demand government reform in the spring of 1989.
  6. 9. The country where the Arab Spring movement began in 2010.
  7. 11. Soviet Union leader who was working to make the country more open and democratic.
  8. 12. The ________ Demonstrations, where Germans gathered in cities in East Germany to demand freedom, free elections, and the right to travel.
  9. 14. Harsh dictator of Spain for almost 40 years, died in 1975
  10. 16. President of the Russian Republic within the Soviet Union, stood on top of a tank and called for people to resist the coup against reform.