Vietnam

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Across
  1. 4. If one nation falls to communism, then others will too
  2. 7. Unlimited freedom of action
  3. 11. Secretary of Defense
  4. 13. Required enrollment in the armed services
  5. 14. Jets go in and bomb Vietcong and North Vietnam in 1965.
  6. 18. A US military raid on a South Vietnamese village intended to root out villagers with ties to the Vietcong
  7. 19. In northwestern Vietnam; French outpost
  8. 21. South Vietnamese Communists; fought against South Vietnam in the Vietnam War
  9. 24. A gasoline-based substance used in bombs that US planes dropped in Vietnam
  10. 25. General in charge of all the Americans in Vietnam
Down
  1. 1. South Vietnam's president
  2. 2. Secretary of State
  3. 3. Temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel
  4. 5. Youth-dominated political movement of the 1960s.
  5. 6. Toxic leaf-killing chemical sprayed by US planes in Vietnam
  6. 8. New Left Group founded in 1960; called for greater individual freedom and responsibility.
  7. 9. Person who supported US involvement in the Vietnam War & believed more military force should be used to win it.
  8. 10. The southern Vietnamese soldiers; Army of the Republic of Vietnam
  9. 12. Person who opposed the Vietnam War and believed the US should withdraw from it.
  10. 15. A network of paths along the borders of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
  11. 16. Resolution adopted by Congress in 1964; gave the President a blank check
  12. 17. New Left organization; result of a clash in 1964 between University of California at Berkeley students and administrators.
  13. 20. North Vietnam's president
  14. 22. Public distrust of statements made by the government.
  15. 23. Organization who wanted Vietnam's independence from foreign rule