US History

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Across
  1. 3. Space shuttle disaster in 1986 claiming the lives of all seven crew members
  2. 4. Energy crisis of the 1970s caused by an Arab oil embargo
  3. 5. President Reagan's economic plan of tax cuts and deregulation
  4. 7. Scandal involving secret US support for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels
  5. 11. First Gulf War fought in 1991 to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion
  6. 13. President who signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993
  7. 17. Secret Pentagon documents leaked in 1971 revealing US involvement in Vietnam
  8. 18. Widespread fear of nuclear war between the US and Soviet Union during the Cold War
Down
  1. 1. Major nuclear accident at a Pennsylvania power plant in 1979
  2. 2. First African American Supreme Court Justice, appointed in 1986
  3. 6. Massive internet stock market bubble that burst in 2000
  4. 8. Social and political movement that advocated for equality for women throughout the 1970s and 1980s
  5. 9. President who resigned in 1974 due to the Watergate scandal
  6. 10. Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, symbolizing the end of the
  7. 12. Landmark Supreme Court case in 1973 legalizing abortion nationwide
  8. 14. Landmark legislation passed in 1972 protecting the environment
  9. 15. Series of international trade agreements promoting free trade
  10. 16. US military intervention in Panama in 1989 to remove dictator Manuel Noriega