End+of+Vietnam

End of Vietnam


 * Nixon elected in 1968 - promises peace with honor.
 * Nixon's plan called "Vietnamization"
 * troops withdrawn
 * training and equipent given to South Vietnamese
 * by 1972, only 24,200 troops remained
 * Bombing raids increased
 * hurt supply lines of North Vietnam
 * bombing expanded to other countries - Laos and Cambodia
 * Bombing was the Nixozitation of the war
 * U.S. ground forces invaded Cambodia in Spring 1970
 * Kent State - 4 day protest
 * May 4, 1970, Kent State, federal troops sent in on the fourth day
 * 4 students killed - some not even protesters.
 * Protest increase
 * Nixon loses support from the public and Congress Gulf of Tonkin Resolution repealed
 * War eases away
 * The Pentagon Papers come out
 * Goes to the supreme court, Nixon loses
 * Peace Talks - 1972
 * Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho hold peace talks
 * "Peace is at hand" -Henry Kissinger
 * Nixon gets reelected
 * Peace talks get cut off
 * More bombs - known as the Christmas time bombing
 * Agreed to an immediate cease fire
 * agreement reached on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam
 * All POW would be returned
 * North Vietnamese brutal
 * Vietnam is reunited under communism, America air lifted out, we lost
 * Agrarian society in shambles, 1.5 million Vietnamese deaths
 * "killing fields"
 * 58,000 Americans killed
 * $150 billion cost
 * Government abolishes the draft
 * War Powers Act-curb the power of the President
 * altered American foreign policy
 * overall cynicism in Americans
 * veterans extended a cold hand
 * some veterans suffered from stress
 * entire generation of Americans was affected