The+End+of+Vietnam

The End of Vietnam:


 * Nixon: Promises "peace with honor" in Vietnam

Vitnamization: Nixon's policy for winding down the war
 * troops withdrawn
 * training
 * bombing raids increased
 * bombed Loas and Combodia to hurt the supply line of North Vietnam
 * U.S ground forces invaded Cambodia in Spring 1970

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 * This leads to more domestic
 * Nixon loses support from the public and Congress Gulf of Tonkin Resolution repealed

The Pentagon Papers: New York Times got a hold of the papers and won in Supreme Court debate over Nixon who claimed that he had executive authority within not letting the papers being printed.
 * Peace Talks-1972 "Peace Is At Hand"
 * The Peace Talks end and bombs will increase, Nixon is re-elected
 * January 27, 1973-agreement reached on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam
 * U.S. got the POW*MIA soldiers to come home
 * But in 1975 NV military attacked SV is reunited under communism

The Legacy of the War: American Copes:
 * In Southeast Asia
 * 1.5 million Vietnamese deaths
 * countless Vietnamese civilians wounded, homeless
 * agrarian society in shambles
 * 58,000 Americans killed
 * 365,000 wounded
 * $150 billion in direct costs
 * U.S. attempts to come to grips with a "loss"- blow to self-esteem
 * changes in the U.S. policy