Fighting the Vietnam War #1

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Across
  1. 1. South Vietnamese peasants were surrounded by barbed wire and controlled by the ____.
  2. 6. The Americans bombed strategic targets in ____ Vietnam to stop the supply of troops and weapons to the South.
  3. 7. Describe the type of military force President Kennedy sent to Vietnam.
  4. 11. In 1968, a mission to the village of ____ ended with the massacre of many innocent civilians
  5. 12. Which President sent a half a million US combat troops to Vietnam?
  6. 13. South Vietnamese _____ were taken from their villages and settled in strategic hamlets.
  7. 15. Agent ____ also cleared the foliage in the jungle.
Down
  1. 2. What was the first Asian Nation to fall to Communism?
  2. 3. What type of weapons did American troops use to clear foliage in the jungle which was the natural hiding place for the Vietcong.
  3. 4. The conflict in Vietnam that developed following the French defeat can best be described as this type of War.
  4. 5. As a result of this brutality and lack of sensitivity, they turned the ____ people against them.
  5. 8. Vietnamese civilians were constantly caught in the ____ and began to question whether the US army was really on their side.
  6. 9. Who was the leader of the communist Vietnamese resistance movement?
  7. 10. What often missed targets and hit schools and hospitals.
  8. 14. The Americans tried to win the war from the ____.