Vietnam Vocabulary Crossword

Army nickname for Marine and Navy airmen.
Refugees who fled Vietnam after the war.
Derisive U.S. slang term for Vietnamese.
U.S. slang for a particularly odious prison for captured U.S. servicemen.
Vietnamese peasant home, usually very simple, with a thatched roof.
A U.S.attack helicopter.
Large U.S. helicopter gunship.
Helicopter landing zone.
Basic rifle used by U.S. troops in Vietnam.
A major Indochina River.
White phosphorus artillery shell, designed to burn the skin.
Term used by American troops to refer the U.S.
Antiwar lectures in many U.S. colleges and high schools.
U.S. South Vietnamese operation to kill village leaders believed to be pro-Communist.
The lead and most dangerous position on a patrol into enemy territory.
Natives in remote hill country of Vietnam and Laos, allies of the U.S.
U.S. plane capable of circling over a target and firing tens of thousands of shells into a small area.
Proclaimed by President Harry S. Truman in 1947, it committed the U.S. to aid anti-Communist forces anywhere in the world; it's seen as the foundation of U.S. decision to go to war in Vietnam.
Meetings in Paris, France, where U.S. South Vietnam, Vietcong, and North Vietnam sought ways to end war.