Vietnam War

Edit Answers
1234567891011121314151617181920
Across
  1. 6. USA strategy to contain Communism within Vietname before it starts spreading throughout South-East Asia
  2. 9. the South Vietnamese secret police during Diem's regime which was controled by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu
  3. 11. advocacy of or support for the political independence of a particular nation or people.
  4. 13. a Marxist organisation aiming to liberate Vietnam from the French
  5. 15. the aim of the Viet Minh after the division from the Geneva agreements
  6. 17. set up by Diem in 1962 to gather peasants into armed stockades to cut them off from Viet Cong influence
  7. 19. The French colonial term for the area encompassing present-day Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (which was itself composed of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochin China).
  8. 20. defoliants, used by the American forces in Vietnam.
Down
  1. 1. what did the US send to South Vietnam to help rebuild their government and to get make sure they don't turn into communism
  2. 2. The no-man’s-land surrounding the border between North Vietnam and South Vietnam at the 17th Parallel.
  3. 3. NVA
  4. 4. the last and deciding battle ending the First Indochina war
  5. 5. the political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign of civil resistance, led mainly by Buddhist monks
  6. 7. the practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives, friends, or associates, especially by giving them jobs.
  7. 8. The national army of South Vietnam which US military advisors trained in the beginning of 1962.
  8. 9. The southernmost of the three divisions of French colonial Vietnam, below Tonkin and Amman to the north. The major city in Cochin China was Saigon.
  9. 10. former leader of South Vietnam that oppressed its people under its rule until his assassination in 1963
  10. 12. national liberation front, guerilla army, Vietnamese Communists
  11. 14. Leader and founder of the nationalist group that took control of North Vietnam after the Geneva agreement
  12. 16. A flammable, sprayable, gasoline-based gel that the U.S. military used extensively as a weapon in Vietnam. Napalm inflicted devastating burns, killing and maiming many Vietnamese soldiers and civilians.
  13. 18. Became the 36th US president after the assassination of JFK November 22, 1963