Vietnam

2. Hannah: Female north Vietnamese radio announcer whose broadcasts were designed to erode morale of U.S. troops
4. of Tonkin resolution: congressional authorization given to resident Johnson in 1964 allowing increased U.S. military role in Vietnam it followed alleged attack on two U.S. warships in gulf of Tonkin
5. derisive U.S. slang term for Vietnamese
7. a Vietnamese child fathered by a U.S. serviceman in Vietnam. Some 4,000 of the estimated 8,000 ton 15,000 have been resettled in the U.S. such as children are racial outcasts in Vietnam
12. orange: A defoliant the U.S. sprayed on jungle areas to remove enemy hiding places. Many U.S. troops claim it gave them cancer and produced birth defects in their children
13. control commission: multinational group assigned by U.N. to oversee post-1954 division of Vietnam into north and south
15. green giant: large U.S. helicopter gunship
16. helicopter landing zone
19. a pardon, given by president jimmy carter in 1977 to most of the 10,000 Vietnam- era draft evaders

1. U.S. troops slang for kilometers, measuring distance in Vietnam
3. A U.S. attack helicopter
6. killed in action some 58,000 U.S. troops died in combat in Vietnam
7. army nickname for marine and navy airmen
8. army of the republic of (south) Vietnam, U.S. ally during the war
9. front line U.S. troops who had the toughest most dangerous job
10. Vietnamese peasant home usually very simple with a thatched roof
11. trap: hidden explosive device designed to injure the enemy
14. people: U.S. program of counting en enemy bodies to measure success or failure of missions pressure on soldiers for high “body count” led to the killing of many Vietnamese civilians
17. Hilton: U.S. slang for a particularly odious prison or captured U.S. servicemen
18. state: refers to killing and wounding of student antiwar protesters at Kent state(Ohio) university by national guard troops on may 4 1970