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__Vietnam The End Notes__


 * Nixon promised "peace with honor" in Vietnam

Vietnamization: policy for winding down the war Anitwar:
 * troops withdraw
 * training equipment given to South Vietnamese
 * by 1972, only 24,200 troops remained
 * bombing raid will increase
 * hurt supply lines of North Vietnam
 * bombing expanded to other countries - Laos and Cambodia
 * Nixon wants the enemy to believe that he would do anything to win
 * us ground foces invaded cambodia in Spring 1970
 * Kent State protest occurs and 4 people die
 * Jackson state(all black college) kills 3
 * Nixon loses support from the public and Congress
 * Gulf of Tonkin is repealed

The Pentagon Papers:
 * investigation and the US was stretching the truth and lieing
 * Nixon vs NY Times- NY Times wins

Peace Talks- 1972
 * peace talks now begin
 * an election year
 * now the US bombs North Vietnam heavily on Christmas
 * many lives lost

POW*MIA POW Places: In 1975
 * there could still be POW in Vietnam
 * NV POW places were harsh and torture may be used
 * poor living condition
 * shoulders would be broken
 * the guys developed a way to communicate by tapping
 * NV attacks Saigon and SV falls to communism

America Copes
 * $150 billion in direct costs
 * 58,000 Americans killed
 * Nixon resigns
 * changes in US policy

Changes
 * government abolishes the draft
 * war powers act- curb the power of the President
 * alterd american foreign policy
 * overall cynicism in america

Disillusionment
 * veterans extended a cold hand
 * many veterans suffered from stress
 * many citizens embittered toward government
 * entire generation of Americans was affected