Vietnam War

1. Emotional stress suffered by many Vietnam veterans
3. Demilitarized Zone
5. Section of Laos that juts into Vietnam
8. Landing zone
9. A U.S. attach helicopter
14. A defoliant the U.S. sprayed on jungle areas to remove enemy hiding places.
15. Vietnamese Communist guerrillas opposed to the government of South Vietnam
17. U.S. troops’ slang for kilometers, measuring distance in Vietnam
19. American pickup from Vietnamese, meaning “Let’s get out of here!”
20. Killed in Action

2. Vietnamese civilians who were treated by U.S. military medical personnel
4. Large U.S. helicopter gunship
6. Hidden explosive device designed to injure the enemy
7. Term used by American troops to refer to the U.S.
10. Ho Chi Minh
11. White phosphorus artillery shell designed to burn the skin
12. Missing in action
13. Sharpened spear hidden underground designed to impale unwary U.S. and South Vietnamese troops
16. Female North Vietnamese radio announcer whose broadcast whose broadcasts were designed to erode morale of U.S. troops
18. Missing in Action