The Vietnam War Unit Review

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Across
  1. 2. If one country falls in Indochina to communism then the rest will follow
  2. 3. President's Secretary of Defense who argued for escalation of the war in Vietnam
  3. 6. Pro-communist leader in Vietnam in the 1950s
  4. 8. People who opposed fighting the war on moral or religious grounds
  5. 10. US President who escalated the Vietnam War by attacking neighboring nations like Cambodia
  6. 11. Growing youth movement that pushed for social changes in the US
  7. 12. People who were for the war in Vietnam
  8. 13. Ruthlessly ruled South Vietnam until before his assassination in 1963
  9. 15. Gave President Johnson full authority for the war
  10. 17. US commander of operations in Vietnam who demanded more troops
  11. 20. President Nixon's National Security Advisor
  12. 23. First sustained bombing of NV by the US
  13. 26. Communist rebels in South Vietnam who were also called the Vietcong
Down
  1. 1. President Nixon's polciy to withdraw American troops and replace them with Vietnamese
  2. 2. People who were opposed to the war in Vietnam
  3. 4. South Vietnamese Army
  4. 5. Young organization that fought for civil rights and against the Vietnam War and the draft
  5. 6. Vietcong supply lines from North Vietman and neighboring countries
  6. 7. 1968 Democratic candidate until he was assassinated
  7. 9. The massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by US troops took place in this city
  8. 14. 1968 battle in Vietnam that was the turning point in the war
  9. 16. Gasoline based bomb dropped by US bombers that set fire to the jungle
  10. 18. Nixon's strategy for ending the war in Vietnam
  11. 19. Difference between President Johnson's claims of winning and what was really happening
  12. 21. Tensions between students who opposed the war and National Guardsmen resulted in four deaths at this college
  13. 22. Leaf-killing toxic chemical used to defoliate the forest
  14. 24. Unifying elections were to be held within 2 years as part of this agreement
  15. 25. Group organized by Ho Chi Minh during WWIIto resist the Japanese occupation