Vietnam War

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Across
  1. 2. American general in charge in Vietnam
  2. 4. U.S. security agreement with seven other asian countries
  3. 6. Walter Cronkite and others televising battles and scenes directly from Vietnam
  4. 7. The easing of Cold War tensions
  5. 9. Spoke out against how many African-Americans were fighting
  6. 17. Political goals should be defined by concrete national objectives
  7. 18. College students who did not have to be drafted
  8. 21. Woman who volunteered to go Vietnam as a nurse
  9. 23. Nixon ordered attacks into this neighbor of Vietnam
  10. 24. Communist leader of North Vietnam
  11. 25. Set himself on fire in Saigon to protest Diem government
  12. 27. U.S. belief that if Vietnam became communist other countries around it would too
  13. 28. Prisoner of war and missing in action
  14. 30. First president to send troops to Vietnam
  15. 32. Protestors disruped the presidential nomination process in 1968 Chicago
  16. 34. Forced to fight per the Selective Service Act
  17. 35. National Liberation Front fighter for N. Vietnam
  18. 36. Surprise attack by North Vietnamese during holiday
  19. 37. French forces under siege by North Vietnamese
  20. 38. Nixon tried to block publication of Pentagon Papers but lost
  21. 39. LBJ's congressional approval to escalate war
  22. 40. Used to resupply North Vietnamese soldiers
Down
  1. 1. Outlined detailed classified information about American involvement in Vietnam
  2. 3. Four students shot to death while protesting
  3. 5. Nixons right hand man
  4. 8. society College protest clubs
  5. 10. Congress placed limits on the presidents ability to wage war
  6. 11. Nixon went to meet him in China
  7. 12. Anti war politicians
  8. 13. President from 1968-1973
  9. 14. Assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan June 5, 1968
  10. 15. Difference between what President Johnson was saying and what was being reported
  11. 16. Froze the deployment of nuclear weapons
  12. 19. Jellified fire bomb
  13. 20. Lieutenant Calleys unit kills unarmed Vietnamese civilians
  14. 22. Pro war politicians
  15. 26. Sunk in Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese
  16. 29. French name for Vietnam under colonization
  17. 31. South Vietnamese would fight but U.S. would pull out
  18. 33. How the soldiers are feeling about the war