Vietnam War Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• lyndon johnson : the texas politician who is most commonly associated with the vietnam war at its most violent
• harry truman : the us president at the very beginning of the cold war
• catholic : the professed religion of ngo dinh diem
• nikita khrushchev : the soviet premier at the beginning of the vietnam war
• vietminh : ho chi minh's original anti-colonial organization
• robert mcnamara : the secretary of defense for presidents kennedy and johnson
• tetoffensive : the jan./feb. 1968 country-wide communist attack on south vietnam
• henri navarre : the last commander of french forces in indochina
• ngodinhdiem : the first president of the republic of vietnam
• selfimmolation : the act of burning oneself alive, usually as part of a ritual protest
• gerald ford : this chief executive presided over the very end of the vietnam war, when congress chose to not send troops and materiel to help south vietnam when the communists invaded
• buddhist : the professed religion of the overwhelming majority of vietnamese
• leduan : by 1960, this vietnamese communist politician was the real power within the north vietnamese government
• john kennedy : the us president who "inherited" the vietnam situation from eisenhower
• william westmoreland : the commander of american forces in vietnam from 1964-1968
• dienbienphu : the 1954 battle that signaled the end of french rule in indochina
• richard nixon : eisenhower's vice-president, this man was president when the paris peace accords were signed, ending america's active involvement in vietnam
• hanoi : the capital of north vietnam
• saigon : the capital of the republic of vietnam (renamed ho chi minh city after the communist victory)
• vietcong : communist guerrillas operating in south vietnam
• maozedong : the chinese leader throughout the vietnam war