Modern United States Vocabulary Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Economic policies of Reagan. AKA "Trickle-down Economics" Deregulated businesses and lowered tax rates.
  2. 4. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political gains
  3. 7. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
  4. 9. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  5. 10. Anti-American Muslim militants stormed the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, taking all of its occupants hostage
  6. 11. A policy initiated in the USSR that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo, towards a market based economy and society.
  7. 12. "Openness": Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues
  8. 13. The US secretly sold arms to Iran for the release of hostages, and illegally using the proceeds to finance rebels in Nicaragua
Down
  1. 2. A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race
  2. 3. Book about the harmful effects of DDT which began the environmental protection movement.
  3. 5. A period of slow economic growth and high unemployment while prices rise
  4. 6. After 9/11: Act used to fight terrorism, justified violating citizens' right to privacy in the hunt for terrorists
  5. 8. North American Free Trade Agreement