Across
- 1. South Vietnamese peasants were surrounded by barbed wire and controlled by the ____.
- 6. The Americans bombed strategic targets in ____ Vietnam to stop the supply of troops and weapons to the South.
- 7. Describe the type of military force President Kennedy sent to Vietnam.
- 11. In 1968, a mission to the village of ____ ended with the massacre of many innocent civilians
- 12. Which President sent a half a million US combat troops to Vietnam?
- 13. South Vietnamese _____ were taken from their villages and settled in strategic hamlets.
- 15. Agent ____ also cleared the foliage in the jungle.
Down
- 2. What was the first Asian Nation to fall to Communism?
- 3. What type of weapons did American troops use to clear foliage in the jungle which was the natural hiding place for the Vietcong.
- 4. The conflict in Vietnam that developed following the French defeat can best be described as this type of War.
- 5. As a result of this brutality and lack of sensitivity, they turned the ____ people against them.
- 8. Vietnamese civilians were constantly caught in the ____ and began to question whether the US army was really on their side.
- 9. Who was the leader of the communist Vietnamese resistance movement?
- 10. What often missed targets and hit schools and hospitals.
- 14. The Americans tried to win the war from the ____.