Causes of Vietnam War
Across
- 2. The conflict in Vietnam that developed following the French defeat can best be described as this type of War.
- 3. After World War Two Ho Chi Minh captured who?
- 4. Describe the type of military force President Kennedy sent to Vietnam.
- 7. Which President sent a half a million US combat troops to Vietnam?
- 10. What U.S. Secretary of Defence withheld information about US support of South Vietnamese raids on North Vietnamese radar stations and other targets in the period leading up to the attack?
- 12. The U.S. was afraid communism would spread to where?
- 14. What group of people wanted to unite their country under communist leader Ho Chi Minh?
Down
- 1. What ship did North Vietnamese boats attack
- 3. Who was the leader of the communist Vietnamese resistance movement?
- 5. Before World War Two Vietnam had been part of what empire?
- 6. What was the belief that if one country fell to communism the other one would too?
- 8. Who was the corrupt leader that refused to give peasants land?
- 9. What was the first Asian Nation to fall to Communism?
- 11. What group attacked South Vietnam?
- 13. What U.S. president sent 16,000 military ‘advisers’ to help the South Vietnamese army?