Appeals to

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• Nixon wins 1968 Election
• Campaigns for Peace with Honor
• Campaigns on Strategy to End the War

Appeals to Silent Majority
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Nixons War Vietnamization

• Thinking Skill Explicitly assess information and
  draw conclusions
• Objective Assess the success of Vietnamization
  and the subsequent consequences

Prep Open 2 documents Ohio song and video from
Modern World History Online Nixon and Cambodia
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The Pentagon Papers Secret bombing of Cambodia
uncovered
Nixon addresses nation
Alternate Perspective on Impact of Cambodia
bombing
Question Were the bombings in Cambodia a good
idea?
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• Campus Protests against Bombings in Cambodia
• 4 killed at Kent State
• 2 Killed at Jackson State

Philip Gibbs James Earl
Green
Jackson State
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Ohio by Neil Young

• Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,We're finally on
  our own.This summer I hear the drumming,Four
  dead in Ohio.Gotta get down to itSoldiers are
  cutting us downShould have been done long
  ago.What if you knew herAnd found her dead on
  the groundHow can you run when you know?

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US troops continue to pull out of Vietnam
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Nixon brings home the troops as rapidly as
Johnson had sent them.
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1973 Paris Peace Accords

• Agreements
• Cease-Fire
• U.S. Troop withdrawal
• POWs exchanged (hundreds return home)
• NV troops remain in South
• NLF a legitimate political party
• SV government remains in power pending a
  political settlement
• But
• No cease-fire no political agreement

President Nixon greets John McCain, who had been
a POW for over 5 years
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1975 Saigon falls President Gerald Ford took
over for Nixon after the Watergate scandal. In
1975, remaining U.S. officials were evacuated by
helicopter during NV offensive.
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Aftermath of the War
Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC

• 58,000 U.S. troops killed
• 300,000 wounded
• Millions of Vietnamese and Cambodians killed
• Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos ruled by Communists
• American reluctance to commit troops to foreign
  wars
• Loss of trust in Govt. (Tonkin, Cambodia,
  Pentagon Papers)
• 1973 War Powers Act limits power of President to
  deploy troops without Congress approval
• Less money for Great Society domestic programs
• Sec. McNamaras Book Apology