GoBuffs - Vietnam

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Across
  1. 4. In August 1968, Democrats met to choose new candidate at this convention; chaotic clash began outside convention between police and protesters.
  2. 6. Nickname for people who did NOT support the war in Vietnam - called for peace.
  3. 7. Organization whose goal was to contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.
  4. 9. USS Maddox was torpedoed by a North Vietnamese boat - resulted in congress passing a law that essentially gave the president a "blank check" to do whatever he wanted in regard to fighting back against those in Southeast Asia.
  5. 10. Nickname for people who supported the war in Vietnam.
  6. 12. Anticommunist leader of South Vietnamese government...election was rigged so that he would win.
  7. 14. American COMMANDER in South Vietnam who believed that US should increase military presence in Vietnam
  8. 15. Daniel Ellsburg leaks a study on US involvement in Vietnam; newspapers show that presidents lied to Americans and Congress about involvement.
  9. 18. Communist leader who wanted Vietnam to rule itself through communism;there's a trail named after him.
  10. 19. Operation _______ was when US pilots flew in and bombed North Vietnam, targeting areas like ammo depots, barracks, bridges and more.
  11. 20. "Attack, Retreat, Repeat." North Vietnamese tactic where men ran out of their hiding places, attacked the American soldiers and went back into hiding; also included setting traps for the soldiers as a nearly contactless way of fighting.
  12. 21. Since no compromise was reached between North Vietnam and the US, this was an attempt to end the war quickly.
Down
  1. 1. Four students in Ohio on a university campus were killed by National Guardsmen during a protest.
  2. 2. Defoliant sprayed in Vietnam to make it easier to see the NVA soldiers; sounds like a spy name
  3. 3. President who announced that he wouldn't seek reelection; changed goal from winning to peace.
  4. 5. Campaigned to bring Vietnam war to an end; began as Nonviolent protest but became violent later in the war.
  5. 8. The US, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and Vietcong all agreed to a ceasefire, exchanging of POWs, and US troops being pulled from Vietnam.
  6. 11. People who stayed home and didn't protest but made up the majority of the votes.
  7. 13. US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE that believed America needed to increase military presence in Vietnam.
  8. 16. North and South Vietnam give up on a democratic resolution to the war, and North Vietnam had taken Saigon by the end of April.
  9. 17. Jelly-like gasoline that burned at thousands of degrees Fahrenheit and was used as a defoliant.