AP Ch 29-1 Nixon and Vietnam

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AP Ch 29-1 Nixon and Vietnam
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Nixon
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Detente

• Lessening of Tensions
• USSR SALT I
• China Recognition and admission to UN
• Role of Kissinger

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Vietnam Policy

• Peace With Honor
• Withdrawal would mean loss of credibility
• Vietnamization

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Increased Bombing

• Cambodia
• B-52s

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Student Protests

• Kent State
• Jackson State

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My Lai Massacre
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Breakdown of the Armed Forces
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Vietnam Vets Against the War
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Hardhats
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Christmas Bombings
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Paris Peace Accords

• NV troops remain in SV
• Free election in SV
• Return of POWs

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Operation Homecoming
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Jeremiah Denton

• Denton Video

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Reduced aid / funding

• Saigon falls April 1975
• Reprisals / re-education camps
• Khmer Rouge
• No Domino Effect!!
• Normalized relations

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