Vietnam Crossword

4. spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before going on to become a longtime senator from Arizona and a Republican presidential candidate.
7. an extensive networks of tunnels dug by the Vietcong soldiers.
12. authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression”.
13. the great majority of women who served in Vietnam.
14. began small among peace activists and leftist intellectuals on college campuses but gained national prominence in 1965.
15. a powerful herbicide used by the U.S. to destroy the forest cover.
16. one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War.
17. helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and the League for the Independence of Vietnam, or Viet Minh, in 1941.

1. political radicals accused of incited riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
2. the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
3. congressional resolution designed to limit the U.S. president’s ability.
5. when forces from the People’s Army of North Vietnam (PAVN) carried out a massive artillery bombardment on the U.S. Marine garrison.
6. a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War.
8. a distinguished veteran of World War II and the Korean War, and the commander of the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam.
9. a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
10. members of the Ohio national guard opened fire on a crowed gathered to protest the Vietnam war.
11. a codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam war.