Causes of Vietnam War

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Across
  1. 4. South Vietnamese were unhappy with this man.
  2. 8. What was the first Asian Nation to fall to Communism?
  3. 10. The USA was afraid this would spread to North Vietnam and the rest of Asia.
  4. 11. Who was the leader of the communist Vietnamese resistance movement?
  5. 12. The USS Maddox was destroyed at this place.
  6. 14. This US Secretary of Defense 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.
Down
  1. 1. Which President sent a half a million US combat troops to Vietnam?
  2. 2. The conflict in Vietnam that developed following the French defeat can best be described as this type of War
  3. 3. These people wanted communism and supported the Vietminh and NLF.
  4. 5. Diem treated this population badly.
  5. 6. Vietnam was a part of this empire before world war 2.
  6. 7. The theory if one country fell to communism the neighboring country would as well.
  7. 9. Ho Chi Minh captured this city after world war 2.
  8. 13. Communists who attacked the south.
  9. 15. Describe the type of military force President Kennedy sent to Vietnam.