Vietnam vocab

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Across
  1. 3. Antiwar lectures in many U.S. colleges and high schools.
  2. 4. Extreme leftist antiwar youth group in the U.S. Many domestic bombings were attributed do the Weathermen.
  3. 5. The lead and most dangerous position on a patrol into enemy territory.
  4. 7. common gun used by Americans
  5. 8. Vietnamese Communist guerrillas opposed lo the government of South Vietnam; also, VC, Victor Charlie or, simply "Charlie."
  6. 9. WORLD Term used by American troops lo refer to the U.S.
  7. 10. HO Ho Chi Minh, leader of North Vielnam.
  8. 12. PROGRAM U.S. South Vietnamese operatlon to kill village leaders belleved to be pro-Communisi.
  9. 14. TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME (PTTS) Emotionál stress suffered by many Vietnam veterans after lheir retum home.
  10. 15. Sludents Tor a Democratic Society, a leftist U.S. sludent group that played an imporlant role in protesting agairist lhe war.
Down
  1. 1. U.S. troops' use of hand grenades to kill their own sergeants or officers for the alleged unnecessary risking of soldiers' lives. Army records show 600 "fraggings" between 1969 and 1971.
  2. 2. PETER White phosphorus artillery shell, designed to burn the skin.
  3. 4. Guerrilla group formed by Ho Chi Minh after World War Il to force the French colonial rulers out ol
  4. 5. or PUNJI STICK Sharpened spear hidden In ground, designed to impale unwary U.S. and South Viel-namese troops.
  5. 6. Major Vietnamese holiday. In January 1968, Communist troops shocked U.S. and South Vielnamese by staging fierce altacks all over South Vielnam on the Tel holiday. Though the Communists were lorced back, the . Tel atlack shattered U.S. assurance that the war was going well.
  6. 8. U.S. policy of lurning the warover to South Vietnamese, begun in 1969.
  7. 9. DOCTRINE Proclaimed by President Harry S. Truman in 1947, il committed the U.S. lo aid anti-Gom-munist forces anywhere in the world; il is seen as the foundation of U.S. decision lo go lo war in Vielnam.
  8. 11. trap Hidden explosive device designed to injure the enemy.
  9. 12. THE MAGIC DRAGON U.S. plane capable of circling over a largel and firing tens of thousands of shells-into a small area.
  10. 13. Racially abusive term for Vielnamese used by many U.S. troops.