Unit 8 and 9

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Across
  1. 3. Reagan financed and supported these right-wing counter-revolutionary troops to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua
  2. 6. first female prime minister in human history (first name)
  3. 7. the US orchestrated the overthrow of Salvador Allende and put into power this General who led a brutal dictatorship that opened up Chile's economy (last name)
  4. 8. last name of the Hungarian leader who attempted to withdrew from the Warsaw pact and establish a democracy
  5. 10. Alexander ________ accidentally discovered a fungus that kills bacteria (penicillin)
  6. 12. the US supported this leader's (last name) brutal regime in South Vietnam to oppose the communist North
  7. 14. name of doctrine that stated soviets would intervene if a members actions threatened other socialist countries
  8. 18. ______ Revolution in Iran where progressive reforms were instituted by Shah Reza Pahlavi, granting women’s right to vote created social welfare system funded literacy programs in villages
  9. 20. last name of Egyptian leader who met with Israeli leader Menachem Begin at Camp David
  10. 21. last name of leader who was imprisoned for 27 years because of his fight against the apartheid regime in South Africa
  11. 22. acronym of the group who wanted independence for the Basque region of Spain
  12. 23. policy that refers to economic restructuring to allow free markets in the late Soviet Union
  13. 24. In _____ State University in Ohio, in 1970, the national guard shot and killed four students who protested against the Vietnam War
  14. 25. last name of the author and founder of the Zionist movement
  15. 26. last name of this Peruvian philosophy professor who founded the Shining Path which waged a campaign of terrorism throughout Peru in support of Maoism
Down
  1. 1. policy that refers to the openness in speech, the press and the political process in the late Soviet Union
  2. 2. last name of the first Ghanaian President elected in 1960
  3. 4. the first Ghanaian President in 1960 supported the Pan-African movement through this organization (acronym)
  4. 5. last name of 1953 elected prime minister of Iran who vowed to nationalize British oil companies in his country
  5. 7. almost 1.7 million Cambodians died under this leadership of this ruler (last name) from 1975 to 1979, that involved forced labor, starvation and execution
  6. 9. last name of Nobel prize winner who conceived of microcredit to help residents of poorer countries especially women to improve their economic situation
  7. 11. last name of US general, overall commander for Korean war
  8. 13. In 1947 Truman announced the US would try to stop communist spread, especially in ________ and Turkey
  9. 15. In 1956, this Egyptian leader (last name) took the Suez canal and Israel invaded Egypt then Britain and France occupied surrounding area
  10. 16. this policy was conceived by George Kennan, worked in US embassy in Moscow
  11. 17. In October 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, led by dictator Benito Mussolini, forcing the country's Emperor (last name) into exile
  12. 19. Catholics in Northern Ireland who wanted to be independent of Britain supported this organization (acronym)
  13. 27. Protestants in Northern Ireland who remained loyal to the UK supported this organization (acronym)