The Vietnam War

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Across
  1. 5. Movement of young Americans who had become disillusioned with the Vietnam War & social injustices
  2. 7. Strategy for withdrawing US troops & turning the war over to the South Vietnamese Army
  3. 9. Belief that if one country fell to communism nearby countries would follow
  4. 12. Secret route used by the North Vietnamese troops to send troops & supplies to VC in South Vietnam
  5. 14. Chemical that kills plants, used to expose VC hideouts
  6. 15. US Citizens who support the Vietnam War
  7. 16. US Citizens who opposed the Vietnam War
  8. 17. Initials of the US President who escalated US involvement in Vietnam and put troops on the ground via the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Down
  1. 1. Policy of increasing military involvement in Vietnam
  2. 2. Surprise attacks by small bands of fighters
  3. 3. 1964 legislation that gave LBJ the power to use military force in Vietnam
  4. 4. Last name of the US general in command of the US forces in South Vietnam
  5. 6. French ruled colony made up of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand & Vietnam
  6. 8. Surprise communist attack on US & South Vietnamese forces in 1968; weakened American support for war
  7. 10. Jellied gasoline that burns violently, used to burn vegetation and a weapon
  8. 11. South Vietnamese who fought to overthrow the Diem government & reunite the country under communist rule
  9. 13. System of government in which state plans & controls the economy and way of life