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- 2. resolution Congressional authorization given lo President Johnson in 1964 allowing increased U.S. military role in Vietnam.It followed alleged attack on two U.S. warships in Gulf of Tonkin.
- 5. Multination group assigned by U.N. to oversee post-1954 divi-. sion of Vietnam into North and South.
- 8. A U.S attack helicopter
- 9. Extieme leftist antiwar youth group in the U.S. Many domestic bombings were attributed lo the Weathermen.
- 10. Refers to killing and wounding of student antiwar protesters at Kent Stale (Ohio) University by National Guard troops on May 4, 1970.
- 12. Supply route from North lo South Vietnam. Communist troops used this to send weapons, troops, and supplies to the South.
- 16. U.S. slang for a particularly odious prison for captured U.S. servicemen
- 17. Front line of U.S troops had the toughest job
- 18. Army of the Republic of (South) Vielnam, U.S. ally during the war.
- 19. Missing in action: more than 2,400 troops are still listened as MIAs
- 20. U.S.-South Vietnamese operation to kill village leaders believed lo be pro-Communist.
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- 1. Hidden explosive devices designed to injure the enemy
- 3. U.S program of counting bodies to measure success of failure Of missions.
- 4. Vietnamese peasant home, usually very simple
- 6. Antiwar lectures in many U.S. colleges and high schools.
- 7. Secret U.S. government study of the war which, in part, was crilical of it. President Nixon tried lo stop their release, but in 1971 the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protected their publica-tion.
- 11. A defoliant the U.S. sprayed on jungle areas to remove enemy hiding places.
- 13. Helicopter landing zone
- 14. Killed in action: some 58,000 troops died in combal in Vietnam
- 15. While phosphorus artillery shell, designed to burn the skin.