Cold War Era
Across
- 4. South Vietnamize forces that were supported by the North Vietnamize Army
- 7. A series of Attacks by the Vietcong forces that proved to many Americans that the Vietnam war could not be won.
- 9. an alliance of nations that attempted to end disputes between countries peacefully
- 11. US leaders who supported the idea of fighting in Vietna
- 13. a race during the cold war to see which side could develop the most amount of missiles
- 15. a type of weapon that is created by splitting a hydrogen atom
- 16. a policy of trying to stop the spread of communisms
- 17. a concrete barrier that seperated East Germany from West Germany.
Down
- 1. a meeting between leaders after WW2
- 2. The idea that communism would spread rapidly throughout Southeast Asia and other places around the world.
- 3. An event when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba.
- 5. A policy introduced in an attempt to leave the Vietnam War, in which the Vietnamese forces would take over the fighting
- 6. a word used to describe getting extremely close to war without actually going to war.
- 8. increased involvement in the Vietnam War following the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
- 10. A series of jungle paths that allowed communist forces to travel from North Vietnam to South Vietnam
- 12. a sharp increase in the number of American births during the 1950s and 1960s.
- 14. a nonmilitary aid program introduced by JFK
- 16. a period of time between the Western Powers and Communist Powers where both sides were trying to prove dominance.