Common Defense

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Across
  1. 4. Promised "peace with honor" in getting out of Vietnam; "not a crook"
  2. 9. The US Declared war on this after 9/11
  3. 11. The Japanese absolutely ravaged (or "Raped") this Chinese city in their Imperial Expansion
  4. 12. The Nation invaded by Germany, starting World War 2
  5. 13. Term used to describe Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand)
  6. 14. The sinking of this ship by German U-Boats was a precursor to the US entering WWI
  7. 16. This is both a location and a Resolution - US Ships were attacked there, and LBJ used the attack to expand presidential warmaking powers
  8. 19. This was the US policy to stop Communism from spreading
  9. 20. This physical division of the German capitol was a symbol of the Cold War, and it's fall in 1991 a symbol of the end of the Cold War
  10. 21. This Asian Peninsula saw the first large-scale Cold War combat, in a war that has technically never ended.
  11. 24. This precedent-setting president promoted neutrality
  12. 27. This president's Doctrine claimed the Western Hempisphere as the US Sphere of influence
  13. 30. This Central European nation was our enemy in both WWI and WW2
  14. 31. The Leader of Soviet Russia during WW2 and the beginning of the Cold War
  15. 32. During the Cold War we supported various dictators and authoritarians because they were this (hint: against what we were against)
  16. 33. This Telegram from the Germans during WWI propelled the US into WWI
Down
  1. 1. This European power had colonized Indochina until the Vietnamese forced them to leave
  2. 2. Germany promised this nation it would recover land lost to the US in the 1840s if they joined the Central Powers in WWI
  3. 3. Those who supported getting involved in World War 2
  4. 5. The Soviet response to a United Western Europe, their own group of nations allied with the USSR
  5. 6. This Vietnamese Offensive occured on their New Year, and shares the name
  6. 7. President who sent "advisors" to Vietnam until he was assassinated
  7. 8. This Theory posited that if one nation fell to communism, surrounding nations would also fall
  8. 10. This natural resource was key to Japanese expansion, and the rise of the Middle East as a world power in the 1960s
  9. 15. This Russian City spelled doom for the Nazis, as the winter and stiff Russian resistance stopped them cold.
  10. 17. When you don't choose a side, like Washington suggested we be.
  11. 18. The Anti-Soviet group of nations, sworn to defend each other if attacked; still around today.
  12. 19. Soviet Missiles on this island, just south of Florida, saw the two nations nearly go to nuclear war.
  13. 22. Before US entry to the war, this is how we let European nations "borrow" weapons to fight the Fascists
  14. 23. Those who wanted to stay out of WWII were called this, wanting to keep out of world affairs
  15. 25. He was the North Vietnamese leader during the Vietnam War
  16. 26. FDR's VP, this President dropped the bombs on Japan and laid out the policy of "Containment"
  17. 28. During the Cold War, this was our main enemy
  18. 29. President who "escalated" Vietnam, costing him the presidency in 1968