Unit 6 Vocab Menu

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Across
  1. 1. the involuntary selection of men aged 18-26 to go to war
  2. 3. the corrupt leader of Southern Vietnam
  3. 6. LBJ said that North Vietnam had attacked US ships in the Tonkin Gulf, and LBJ received full control of army
  4. 8. communist leader of Northern Vietnam
  5. 10. a failed invasion by the US attempting to assassinate Castro
  6. 11. president who is known for worsening the situation in Vietnam
  7. 14. research released that showed LBJ's true purpose for involvement in Vietnam and Indochina
  8. 16. Cuban leader who overthrew previous dictator in a communist revolution
  9. 20. the idea that if one country falls to communism, they'll all fall
  10. 21. chemical weapons that many citizens objected to that caused horrific lasting damage
  11. 22. the law that checks the presidents' power to send the country to war
Down
  1. 2. the president during the end of the Vietnam war
  2. 4. the path that made it possible for communist countries to get soldiers and supplies into southern Vietnam
  3. 5. youngest elected president
  4. 7. explosion in population during the 50's and 60's
  5. 9. the UN decided that France had to leave Vietnam
  6. 12. 4 college students shot and killed while burning army recruitment building in protest of the war
  7. 13. Nixon's plan to end US involvement in Vietnam by training South Vietnamese soldiers
  8. 15. southern Vietnamese who supported communism
  9. 17. US and USSR on brink of nuclear warfare when USSR puts missiles in Cuba
  10. 18. a massacre of 250 Vietnamese men, women, and children in My Lai
  11. 19. US attacked Vietcong and north Vietnam - was a military win but a political loss