Chapter 1 Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. CASTRIES The French colonel who commanded the garrison at Dien Bien Phu and was captured at the battle's end
  2. 5. THEORY President Eisenhower's geopolitical theory suggesting that if Vietnam fell to communism, neighboring Southeast Asian nations would also fall
  3. 7. The French general who conceived the ill-fated plan to establish a fortified air-land base at Dien Bien Phu to lure the Viet Minh into battle
  4. 9. The large Asian neighbour that provided the Viet Minh with crucial artillery, sanctuary, and military advisors after 1949
  5. 10. The former history teacher who became the Viet Minh’s military commander and the architect of the victory against the French
  6. 12. The civilians who transported artillery and supplies on their backs or modified bicycles, described as a "human anthill" at Dien Bien Phu
  7. 13. BIEN PHU The decisive 1954 battle located in a valley where the Viet Minh besieged and defeated the French garrison
  8. 15. The animal used in Ho Chi Minh’s famous metaphor to describe the French forces, predicting they would be bled to death by the Vietnamese "tiger"
  9. 16. ZEDONG The Chinese communist leader whose military theories on "protracted war" heavily influenced General Giap’s strategy
  10. 17. The Swiss city that hosted the 1954 peace conference which temporarily divided Vietnam into two zones
Down
  1. 1. The type of irregular warfare tactics, characterized by ambushes and hit-and-run attacks, used by the Viet Minh to wear down the French
  2. 3. CHI MINH The communist leader who declared Vietnam’s independence in 1945 and whose adopted name translates to "Bringer of Light"
  3. 4. The US foreign policy strategy aimed at halting the spread of communism, which drove American financial support for the French war effort
  4. 6. PARALLEL The specific latitude line established by the Geneva Accords as the temporary military demarcation between North and South Vietnam
  5. 8. The failed French defensive strategy of using a network of fortified posts to control territory, known as the "grid" system
  6. 11. MINH The "League for the Independence of Vietnam," formed in 1941 to resist Japanese and French occupation
  7. 14. DAI The French-appointed "puppet" emperor and head of the State of Vietnam intended to offer a nationalist alternative to the communists