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Across 5. Talks 8. Confidence, fighting spirit 10. A Vietnamese Communist 11. Building up and supporting South Vietnam forces to resist the Viet Cong 12. Nixon's national security adviser 13. A peace agreement was signed in 1972 16. Secret defense department papers released to the New York Times in 1971 22. Passed in 1973, this limits the president's war making powers without consulting Congress 24. The colony, under French rule, in SE Asia that included Vietnam 26. A person or government that practices or supports Communism 27. Chemical sprayed to kill plant growth which Viet Cong used as cover 29. A Congressional decision to give the president power to use military force in Vietnam 30. President of the United States between 1945 and 1953 34. Anti-Communist alliance founded in 1954 36. Increasing military involvement 37. Those who wanted to send bombers and fighting troops to Vietnam 39. Situation where neither side can win 41. President of the United States between 1963 and 1969 44. Movement of a nation of people to rule themselves 47. President of the United States between 1953 and 1961 48. A public display of group opinion about an ikssue, cause, or person 49. Areas where anything that moved was considered to be the enemy and attacked

Down 1. Openly 2. An action taken by one or more nations and designed to force another nation to comply with a legal, ethical, or moral code 3. Jellied gasoline that burns violently, dropped by the US planes over wide areas 4. Land, farming 6. Surprise attacks by small bands of fighters, a tactic relied on by the Viet Cong 7. Meeting where an agreement is made to divide North and South Vietnam along 17th parallel 9. An act of aggression, hostile action or assault 14. Alliance, joining together 15. Opponents of the US government's policy in Vietnam 17. When religious leaders in South Vietnam demonstrated against Diem's rule by self-immolation 18. Former French airbase where the Vietnamese forces sieze and defeat the French 19. Moving into an area secretly 20. Weapons like gas and poison 21. A network of paths the Viet Cong used to move soldiers and supplies during the war 23. A chemical that kills plants, sprayed by United States planes over the jungles of Vietnam 25. Fighting 28. When an entire village is destroyed 29. Military personnel sent by Kennedy to reinforce Diem in 1961 31. Group of allied countries 32. After falling to Communist forces, the name given to Saigon 33. Theory stating that if a country fell to Communism, nearby countries would fall to Communism 35. President of the United States between 1969 and 1974 38. President of the United States between 1961 and 1963 40. Helping two sides to discuss differences 42. A revolutionary leader who united three Communist groups to form the ICP 43. A bad idea in terms of politics 45. Military term meaning an area where fighting happened 46. Losses 48. Those who did not want to get involved in a war with North Vietnam