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Across 2. the guerilla soldiers of the Communist faction in Vietnam also known as the National Liberation Front 5. was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries (3 Words) 6. policy of improving relations with the Soviet Union and China 9. is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program (2 Words) 11. United States Army General, who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War (2 Words) 13. a German-born American writer, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. (2 Words) 16. Vietnamese Stalinist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (3 Words) 17. anyone who did not approve of any kind of military activity 18. the belief that if one nation in Asia fell to the communist, neighboring countries would follow (2 Words) 19. extended meeting or class held to discuss a social or political issue 20. was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 (2 Words)

Down 1. jellied gasoline used in bombs 3. it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of "conventional' military force in Southeast Asia (4 Words) 4. the process of making South Vietnam assume more of the war effort by slowly withdrawing American troops from Vietnam 7. a person who favored military intervention 8. armed band that carries out surprise attacks and sabotage rather than open warfare 10. a political term that came into wide use during the 1960s and 1970s (2 Words) 12. a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam (2 Words) 13. was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (4 Words) 14. 1st president of South Vietnam (3 Words) 15. federal law intended to check the President's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. (3 Words)