7.50-52 vocab

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Across
  1. 5. a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam.
  2. 6. a military strategy in which one side tries to cause so many losses of soldiers and so much destruction of military equipment that it wears down the enemy forces until they collapse
  3. 8. saw the Viet Minh and French colonial forces battle for control of Vietnam
  4. 9. was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War
  5. 11. comprised of ten separate documents that outlined military agreements, declarations from the parties present, and a plan for elections in Vietnam.
  6. 13. theory adopted in U.S. foreign policy after World War II according to which the “fall” of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighbouring states.
  7. 15. the shooting of unarmed college students at Kent State University, in northeastern Ohio, by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970
  8. 16. authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression
Down
  1. 1. a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps.
  2. 2. extended voting rights (suffrage) to citizens aged 18 years or older.
  3. 3. is a congressional resolution designed to limit the U.S. president's ability to initiate or escalate military actions abroad.
  4. 4. the guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam (late 1950s–1975) and the United States (early 1960s–1973).
  5. 5. a Communist guerrilla force founded in 1941 to fight against the joint Japanese and Vichy French occupation of Vietnam during World War II.
  6. 7. was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam
  7. 10. is a term in US politics that refers to public aversion to American overseas military involvements after the domestic controversy over the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975
  8. 12. was a herbicide and defoliant used in Vietnam
  9. 14. a study of the origins and development of the Vietnam War