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