Vietnam Crossword

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  1. 2. / A foreign policy promoted by Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration based on concrete national interests instead of abstract ideologies.
  2. 4. / Flexible diplomacy adopted by Richard Nixon that sought to ease tensions between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China.
  3. 7. / A diverse group of liberal politicians, pacifists, student radicals, and civil rights leaders, questioned the war on both moral and strategic grounds.
  4. 9. / The American commander in South Vietnam.
  5. 11. / A jellied gasoline which was dropped in large canisters that exploded on impact.
  6. 13. / Emerged between the Johnson administration and the people.
  7. 15. / Leading advisor on national security and international affairs.
  8. 17. / 1973 law passed by Congress restricting the president's war-making powers; the law requires the President to consult with Congress within 48 hours of committing American forces to a foreign conflict.
  9. 19. / Coordinated assault on 36 provincial capitals and 5 major cities, as well as the U.S. embassy in Saigon.
  10. 20. / Worked with Nixon to iron out sensitive issues.
Down
  1. 1. / Young men drafted into military service.
  2. 3. / Classified U.S. government study that revealed American leaders intentionally involved the United States in Vietnam without fully informing the American people; leaked to The New York Times in 1971.
  3. 5. / Minnesota senator who was the antiwar candidate for the Democratic Party nomination.
  4. 6. / President Nixon's plan for gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces as South Vietnamese troops assumed more combat duties.
  5. 8. / Originally formed to campaign against racism and poverty, then campaigned against the war in Vietnam.
  6. 10. / 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union that froze the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles and placed limits on antiballistic missiles.
  7. 12. / 1973 peace agreement between the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War.
  8. 14. / Village in South Vietnam where in 1968 American forces opened fire on unarmed civilians; during the massacre, U.S. soldiers killed between 400 and 500 Vietnamese.
  9. 16. / Supported Johnson's was policy.
  10. 18. / Ran for candidacy for the presidency after sensing that Johnson politically weakened.