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