Vietnam-+THE+END

Vietnam- THE END

-Election of Nixon- Vietnamization -To get the US out of the war by making the Vietnamese fight more -troops withdrawn and equipment given to Vietnamese -Bomb raids increase to hurt supply lines of Vietnam -Bombing expanded to Laos and Cambodia -Nixon wanted the enemy to believe that he would do anything to win -controversial- Nixon wants to sent troops into Cambodia after promising to bring troops home -Protest erupts all over the nation -national guard brought in and four American students are killed, three were not protestors -Americans killing Americans in media -Nixon looses the support of the public of Congress Gulf of Tonkin Resolution repealed -The Pentagon papers. US investigated it's own military. People found out that the government lied to the public. Nixon said that the couldn't do that. NY Times took the president to court. Nixon looses. Public enraged. -Peace talks 1972, Secretary of state talks to prime minister of Vietnam. "Peace at Hand." Election year, Nixon is re-elected. More bombs are dropped. Agreement is reached to end the war restoring peace in Vietnam. The fighting stops. -North Vietnam agrees to send the prisoners of war home -North Vietnam attacks, Saigon falls. Vietnam is reunited by communism. -Legacy- in SE Asia. 1.5 million Vietnamese deaths, countless are wounded. Agrarian society left in shambles. Area is left unstable. Cambodia fell to communism after terror. -America copes. 58000 killed. $150 billion in direct costs/ US has to cope with a "loss." -Changes in US policy. Gets rid of the draft. War Powers Act- curb the power of the president -overall cynicism in Americans, distrust of the government -disillusionment, veterans extended a cold hand, suffered from stress, stereotypes developed, entire generation is affected