Across
- 3. many south vietnamese people supported him
- 5. This was costing 77 billion per year
- 6. _____ was who withheld information about US support of South Vietnamese raids on North Vietnamese radar stations and other targets in the period leading up to the attack
- 7. What were communists in South Vietnam called?
- 8. ___ is a resistance army which fought for Vietnamese independence
- 10. What year did Kennedy send military ‘advisers’ to help the South Vietnamese army
- 12. What people wanted communism and supported the Vietminh and the NLF.
- 13. Which President sent a half a million US combat troops to Vietnam?
- 14. The “______ Theory” is belief that if one country fell to communism, it was likely that the neighboring one would also fall – similar to a row of dominoes falling over
- 15. which president sent 16,000 military advisers to help the South Vietnamese army
Down
- 1. The conflict in Vietnam that developed following the French defeat can best be described as this type of War.
- 2. Who was the leader of the communist Vietnamese resistance movement?
- 4. What was the first Asian Nation to fall to Communism?
- 9. 1945 was when was Vietnam declared _________
- 11. What did the US send to the South Vietnamese Government to prevent the spread of communism?