Strategy 3: Madman
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- Created on: 16-04-13 21:35
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- Strategy 3: Madman Strategy & push towards peace
- 'Christmas Bombing' began
- Nixon's popularity fell
- International outrage
- USA suffered heavy aircraft loss
- Northern Victory
- Peace Treaty failed - no supervision from ICC or JMC
- Nixon funded and supported Thieu's regime
- Nixon failed to provide $75b reconstruction aid to Thieu over 5 years
- Nixon failed to 'react strongly' if the North attacked
- No ceasefire between North and South Vietnam
- China nor USSR would support the North
- North launched a general offensive and overran the whole of Vietnam
- South hit bad economic state due to poor harvest, global oil crisis and US withdrawal
- Peace Treaty failed - no supervision from ICC or JMC
- Fall of Saigon 1975
- US forces removed
- General Duong Van Minh replaced Theiu
- Cambodia and Laos become Communist states
- Nixon's bombing of Cambodia was condemned by Congress
- 'Christmas Bombing' began
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