Vietnam War Timeline

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Across
  1. 4. the process of a state becoming independent from colonial power
  2. 6. the action of settling and establishing control of indigenous people and their land
  3. 10. Colonial system over Vietnam that consisted of Tonkin, Annam, Cochin China, Combodia, and Laos
  4. 11. were South Vietnamese supporters of the communist National Liberation Front in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
  5. 14. papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina revealing that U.S secretly increased war involvement
  6. 16. coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam
Down
  1. 1. strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam
  2. 2. new head of North Vietnam’s ruling communist party starting 1960
  3. 3. group movement to resist French and Japanese occupation of Vietnam
  4. 5. prime minister of North Vietnam from 1945-1955
  5. 7. Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union the United States, and China
  6. 8. intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War
  7. 9. War between North Vietnam and the allies in the South
  8. 12. the president of South Vietnam
  9. 13. was a powerful herbicide used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese
  10. 15. the capture of South Vietnam's capital by North Vietnam