Cold War 1960s-70s

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Across
  1. 3. South Vietnamese communist fighters
  2. 4. U.S. supported dictator of Cuba in the 1950s
  3. 5. A divided German city, split between communists and democracies
  4. 8. site of a 1954 Vietminh victory
  5. 11. jellylike substance that catches items on fire
  6. 14. Caribbean nation that signed a trade deal with the Soviets in the early 1960s
  7. 16. European nation that controlled the oil fields in Iran in the 1950s
  8. 17. the "Office of Strategic ___" spied on the Axis Powers during WW2
  9. 19. president who increased US troop levels to over 500K by 1968
  10. 21. Nikita Khrushchev lead this nation in the 1960s
  11. 26. the US supported these types of governments because their leaders were anticommunist
  12. 28. This U.S. agency carried out secret operations after 1947
  13. 29. university where national guard killed 4 students in 1970
  14. 30. Type of crisis that lasted for 13 days in October 1962
  15. 31. President who approved the failed U.S. invasion of Cuba in 1961
Down
  1. 1. these 1954 accords stated Vietnam would be split at the 17th parallel
  2. 2. massive 1968 surprise NVA/VC offensive attack
  3. 4. This was built in 1961 to divide a German city
  4. 6. president who proposed "Vietnamization"
  5. 7. besides England & the US, another US ally that controlled part of West Germany
  6. 9. site of 1968 massacre of 500 Vietnames by US Army forces
  7. 10. Site of a failed U.S. invasion of Cuba in 1961
  8. 12. U.S. assassination operation to kill the Fidel Castro
  9. 13. type of tactic used by the VC against US forces in Vietnam
  10. 15. U.S. theory that if one nation fell to communism then others would
  11. 18. He overthrew the Cuban government in 1959
  12. 20. the Vietminh defeated this European nation in 1954
  13. 22. The U.S. overthrew Mossadegh of this nation in 1953
  14. 23. Operation Rolling ____ bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail
  15. 24. The U.S. had a clear advantage in this type of weapon in the 1960s
  16. 25. gulf near vietnam where NV gunboats attacked US ships
  17. 27. communist leader of Vietnam, 1950s-60s