Ronald Reagan Crossword (White, Pd. 2)

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  1. 2. Something Reagan wanted to achieve in his economics strategy; did it
  2. 3. Bush Ronald Reagan’s successor
  3. 5. reform; an effort to restructure the Soviet economy
  4. 7. Democratic candidate against Reagan in 1984 election
  5. 8. openness; diminishing of tools Soviet Union used to repress
  6. 9. also known as “trickle-down” economics or “Reaganomics”; reducing taxes, benefits to corporations and wealthy individuals in order to encourage new investments
  7. 10. first time it had really been an issue; had to do with the Beirut incident
  8. 11. whom Reagan was addressing in his “tear down this wall” speech
Down
  1. 1. strongly supported by Reagan; thought the use of lasers was very effective
  2. 4. also known as “trickle-down” or “supply-side” economics; reducing taxes, benefits to corporations and wealthy individuals in order to encourage new investments
  3. 6. made to help groups resisting communism in third-world countries
  4. 12. first incident in which Americans had ever really heard of Al-Qaida