Across
- 1. policy that gives special consideration to women & minorities to make up for past discrimination
- 4. North Korea’s political ideology
- 5. disobeying unjust laws by non violently protesting
- 8. mastered by Lee Atwater, this campaign tactic was used in the 1988 election to make Bush look more ‘presidential’ than Dukakis
- 10. allowed gay men & lesbians to serve in the military as long as they kept their sexual orientation a secret
- 12. pull factors include warmer climate, lower taxes, and more/better job opportunities
- 14. desires less government regulation in economic affairs & believes in the importance of stability, and promote law and order to protect private property
- 23. immediately after Gore was granted the recount, Bush filed a lawsuit to the Florida Supreme Court to stop the recount. But, they ruled against him.
- 25. a lobbying group founded by Reverend Jerry Falwell in 1979 to give Evangelical Christians a stronger political voice
- 26. once the East German Communist Party passed new border policies, this wall “fell” and marked the end of the Cold War; became “the greatest street party in the history of the world” (David Hasselhoff performed there NYE 1989)
- 28. this interaction was between the Morton Thiokol engineers & higher management along with NASA discussing concerns over the upcoming Challenger launch
- 29. the reduction or removal of government regulations on business to promote economic efficiency and free enterprise
- 30. South Korea’s political ideology
- 34. Kennedy’s proposal to improve the economy, education, healthcare, & civil rights
- 36. President Eisenhower’s contribution to the interstate highway system
- 37. a workforce barrier that allowed women to rise only so far in a company, but no higher
- 38. desires more government regulation in economic affairs & public welfare that’s promoted by cultivating a widely-tolerant and -permissive society
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- 2. introduced by President Truman & passed by Congress in 1947, this doctrine was a foreign policy that provides aid to help countries fight communism
- 3. banned literacy tests
- 6. punched out pieces of a ballot; if not punched out correctly, can make it difficult to tell the voter’s intent
- 7. the theory that economic growth depends on increasing the supply of goods and services through tax cuts
- 9. US policy aimed to resist the spread of communism
- 11. genre of music that emerged in the 1970s
- 13. increased minimum wage, improved the welfare system, & provided women equal pay for equal work
- 15. political corruption that resulted in Nixon resigning from the presidency
- 16. an era of political and economic change marked by President Ronald Reagan's conservative agenda calling for lower taxes, reduced government regulation of business, and cuts in spending on social programs
- 17. George HW Bush’s biggest campaign challenge in the 1988 presidential election
- 18. the woman Clinton claimed to “not have sexual relations” with
- 19. a treaty proposed by Jimmy Carter that was meant to return control of the Panama Canal back to the Panamanians
- 20. banned poll taxes
- 21. a tactic in used for maintaining white dominance; gave warning that blacks need to leave town before the sun sets
- 22. push factors include lack of job opportunities, overseas manufacturing, and reallocation of government funds
- 24. banned segregation in public facilities & workplaces
- 27. name of the committee that investigated JFK’s assassination
- 31. his murder served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights movement
- 32. A campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54
- 33. a military approach that pushes a country or countries to the brink of war, without actually having to go to war
- 35. marked the beginning of the space race between the US & Soviets