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Across
  1. 2. large group of Americans described as unyoung, unblack, and unpoor.
  2. 8. Leader of the communist groups in Vietnam called the Vietminh and the Vietcong.
  3. 12. founded in 1960 at the University of Michigan, Originally formed to campaign against racism and poverty.
  4. 14. Broke with Johnsons war policy, Group that involved liberal politicians, pacifists, student radicals and civil rights leaders.
  5. 15. Supported Johnsons war policy, believed in the containment of communism and the domino theory.
Down
  1. 1. Selected by Johnson to lead efforts in Vietnam, Top Military authority in the country
  2. 3. Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
  3. 4. a chemical that removes the leaves from trees and plants.
  4. 5. President of Ford MoCo, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson.
  5. 6. Idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, it's closest neighbors would follow.
  6. 7. 4 Youth get killed during demonstration.
  7. 9. A coordinated assault on 36 provincial capitals and 5 major cities.
  8. 10. a thickened petroleum product, used extensively in WW2 against Japan.
  9. 11. formed in 1954, compromised of the U.S. France, Great Britain, Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Thailand and The Philippines, With a goal to contain the spread of communism.
  10. 13. Secretary of Defense that concluded that the president should shift U.S. policy from one that pursued victory to one that pursued a negotiated peace.