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