The Vietnam War Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Structures build by the Vietcong to hide from the Americans
  2. 6. A gradual withdrawal of US troops and South Vietnamese troops taking a more active combat role
  3. 8. Americans who believed the US should pull out of Vietnam
  4. 12. type of powerful weedkiller chemical dropped by the US on Vietnamese jungles
  5. 13. Kind of terrain in Vietnam that slows down the advance of the US
  6. 14. Founder of the communist party of Vietnam
  7. 17. Original colonial owners of Indochina
  8. 18. A War of _____________ gradually wears down the enemy until they do not have the resources to fight anymore
Down
  1. 1. Tactics used by Vietcong against the American forces
  2. 2. Acronym for what some returning soldiers suffered from after ending their service in Vietnam
  3. 3. This is set up by the US military to select young men to go fight in Vietnam and drawn by a lottery
  4. 4. The Gulf of ______________ Resolution allowed Johnson to send US troops to Vietnam
  5. 5. A from of gasoline based bombs that burn for a long time after exploding
  6. 7. Who becomes president after Johnson announces to not seek re-election?
  7. 9. Communist opposition group within South Vietnam
  8. 10. series of trails through the jungle used by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong
  9. 11. Occupied Indochina during WW2
  10. 12. Acronym for the South Vietnamese Army
  11. 15. Americans who believed the US should take a harder stance against the Vietcong
  12. 16. Idea that one country after another would fall to communism