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Vietnamization

  • Anti-war demonstrations became very popular in the US
  • President Nixon was elected in 1968 on a peace platform (Tricky Dicky)
  • Nixon wanted to find a way out honorably
  • Developed Vietnamization with help of Henry Kissinger and Henry Cabot-Lodge
The plan had a two track formula:
  1. Make the south well trained enough militarily that they could withstand the north on their own
  2. Strengthen the south's government to attract a boarder base
US Withdrawals
  • American's began to make their first withdrawals in Aug. 1969
  • Air war increased
  • B-52s dropped more bombs on North Vietnam than during all of WWII
  • 1971 almost entirely an air war
  • 1972 200,000 troops
  • Jan 1973 a cease fire is signed (Americans got their POWs back after 20yrs of fighting)
  • Aug 1973 all US forces out of Vietnam
  • Spring 1975 all of south Vietnam falls to the north and becomes communist

President Nixon

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Henry Kissinger

Effects of the Vietnam War
  • Costs the US 150 billion dollars
  • 57,939 men killed
  • Loss of a country to Communism
  • Limitations brought in on the President's powers to wage war (Vietnam never declared a war)
  • Made the US look bad worldwide
  • Conscription was ended in US
The Watergate Scandal
  • As Nixon was about to run for the 1972 election the Republicans were accused of a crime
  • 5 men were caught trying to break into the Watergate hotel (headquarters for the Democrats) to place bugs 
  • The investigation led to much more corruptness and also implicated Nixon in the cover up
  • Nixon resigned before he could be impeached

summary

Nixon became president in 1968 and wanted to find a way to pull out of Vietnamese War so he created a plan called Vietnamization, which meant that they would militarily train the south so they could withstand the north on their own and strengthen the south's government to attract a border base.
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