Vietnam War by Luisa and Cata

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Across
  1. 5. Border between North and South agreed in 1954.
  2. 7. The sinking of a US' ship that led to the US congress launching a full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War.
  3. 8. A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War.
  4. 9. Highly toxic "weedkiller" sprayed from planes to destroy the jungle where the Viet Cong hid.
  5. 10. A military supply route running from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam. The route sent weapons, manpower, ammunition and other supplies from communist-led North Vietnam to their supporters in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Down
  1. 1. Policy of Richard Nixon's administration which consisted of ending US involvement in Vietnam by training, expanding and equipping the South Vietnamese forces while steadily reducing the number of US combat troops there.
  2. 2. The guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam and the United States.
  3. 3. The name of the ship that was sunk in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  4. 4. An American-perpetrated massacre in 1968 where a company of soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in a Vietnamese village, all of them unarmed civilians, and not one casualty was of the enemy.
  5. 6. Tactic of the Viet Cong where an unusual form of military combat often utilizes raids, ambushes, sabotage and other irregular tactics. The combat involves small groups of men, at times armed civilians with limited training, attacking traditional and larger groups of military. Indistinguishable among civilians because they used no uniform.