Across
- 3. conservative president in 1980s connected to "trinkle down" economics and Iran-Contra
- 4. president forced to resign in scandal, went to China, and behind Vietnamization
- 11. organization to protect environment
- 13. elected president in 1992; impeached; Balkan Crisis
- 14. taking of hostages at US embassy in Iran
- 16. post 9/11 US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq
- 20. these broke in New Oreans during hurricane, flooding the city
- 22. 2005 hurricane that hit New Orleans
- 23. president associated with No Child Left Behind, 9/11, War on Terror, Patriot Act, Hurricane Katrina
- 24. this barrier in Germany fell in 1989.
Down
- 1. president elected in 1976 that brokered Camp David Accords
- 2. conservation Christian political organization important during 1980s
- 5. peace agreement between Israel and Egypt
- 6. gave law enforcement great latitude to monitor phone and digital communication post 9/11
- 7. elected president in 1988; Gulf War; "read my lips, no more taxes"
- 8. conservative public policy research organization founded in 80s
- 9. scandal involving illegal selling of weapons and illegal funding of terrorists in Latin America
- 10. head of Soviet Union in 80s that tried to modernize it; there at end of the war
- 12. pardoned Richard Nixon
- 15. name for scandal involving breaking in to opponent political party offices
- 17. "trinkle down" economics
- 18. elected in 2008 as first black president
- 19. first challenge of US post Cold War; involved kicking Sadam Hussein out of Kuwait when Iraq invaded
- 21. 1970s oil embargo by OPEC