Mr. President

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Across
  1. 4. the pride of Mount Vernon
  2. 6. North Vietnamese leader
  3. 7. French President and critic of US policy in Vietnam
  4. 8. North Korean leader
  5. 10. President 1953-60, ended Korea, supported France in Indochina, sent aid and the first 800 advisors to Diem, broke the Geneva Accords by refusing to hold elections
  6. 12. Technically not a President, but first leader of communist China
Down
  1. 1. President 1963-68, following the Gulf of Tonkin incident committed ground troops to Indochina in '65, by 1968 he led the US to war with 500,000 troops in Indochina
  2. 2. President 1945-52, leader through the majority of Korea
  3. 3. USSR leader, keen to see a Cold War thaw and introduced the policy of peaceful coexisistence
  4. 5. South Korean leader
  5. 9. President 1961-63, sent $1.2 billion to Diem (and allowed his assassination), increased advisors to 17,000, escalated conflict in Indochina
  6. 11. USSR leader, supported border wars in South Korea and backed the North invade the South
  7. 13. South Vietnamese leader