Vietnam Vocab



Across
2. Front line U.S. troops who had the toughest most dangerous jobs
3. Army nickname for the Marine and Navy airmen.
4. Extreme leftist antiwar youth group in the U.S. many domestic bombings were attributed to the weatherman
7. Killed in action
9. Increasing the scope and intensity of fighting as with more bombing
12. Emotional stress suffered by many vietnam veterans after returning home
13. Student for a democratic society a leftist U.S. student group that played an important role in protesting against war
14. Hidden explosive device designed to injure the enemy.
15. Basic rifle used by U.S. troops in Vietnam
16. North Vietnamese Army
18. A group tried for conspiracy to cross state lines to incite violence in connection with anti war demonstrations
19. Army of the Republic of (South) Vietnam, U.S. ally during the war.
   
Down
1. Refers to killings and wounding of student antiwar protesters at kent state university
5. A Vietnamese child fathered by a U.S. serviceman in Vietnam.
6. Missing in action
8. A pardon given by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 to most of the 10,000 Vietnam-era draft evaders.
10. Helicopter landing zone
11. Antiwar lectures in many U.S. colleges and high school
14. U.S program of counting enemy bodies to measure success or failure of missions.
17. A U.S. attack helicopter