Vietnam
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- Vietnam
- Nixon
- Vietnamisation
- US withdrawal of troops
- 1970 - 415,000
- 1971 - 239,000
- 1972 - 47,000
- Strengthening SV troops
- ARVN increased from 82,000 in 1968 to one million in 1970
- ARVN casualties increased
- Soldiers selected on Loyalty not ability
- Morale was low
- Operation Linebacker
- Dependent on US support
- Increase of commitment directly opposes Vietnamisation
- US withdrawal of troops
- June 1970 - Senate removed Gulf of tonkin resolution
- Cambodia and Laos
- No strategic gains
- Massive loss by the NV
- large amounts of NV supplies and equipment destroyed
- Increase of commitment directly opposes Vietnamisation
- April 1970 - 20,000 troops for Cambodia
- Opposes NIxon policy of withdrawal
- US withdrawal of troops
- 1970 - 415,000
- 1971 - 239,000
- 1972 - 47,000
- US withdrawal of troops
- Opposes NIxon policy of withdrawal
- 1973 - Congress forces the end of bombing in NV
- Peace
- Feb 1970 - Kissinger met Le Duc Tho
- Paris Peace Accords
- January 1973
- March 1973 - US forces left VIetnam
- Peace with Honour
- Vietnamisation
- LBJ
- My Lai Massacre
- 300-600 dead mainly women and children
- Public outrage
- My Lai Massacre
- Tet Offensive
- January - September 1968
- Johnson refused to send in more troops
- Nixon
- Robert McNamara stood down as secretary of defense
- February 1968
- Vietnam
- Nixon
- Vietnamisation
- Strengthening SV troops
- ARVN increased from 82,000 in 1968 to one million in 1970
- ARVN casualties increased
- Soldiers selected on Loyalty not ability
- Morale was low
- Operation Linebacker
- Dependent on US support
- Strengthening SV troops
- June 1970 - Senate removed Gulf of tonkin resolution
- Cambodia and Laos
- No strategic gains
- Massive loss by the NV
- large amounts of NV supplies and equipment destroyed
- April 1970 - 20,000 troops for Cambodia
- Opposes NIxon policy of withdrawal
- Opposes NIxon policy of withdrawal
- 1973 - Congress forces the end of bombing in NV
- Peace
- Feb 1970 - Kissinger met Le Duc Tho
- Paris Peace Accords
- January 1973
- March 1973 - US forces left VIetnam
- Peace with Honour
- Vietnamisation
- LBJ
- My Lai Massacre
- 300-600 dead mainly women and children
- Public outrage
- My Lai Massacre
- Tet Offensive
- January - September 1968
- Johnson refused to send in more troops
- Nixon
- Vietnam
- Replaced by Clark Clifford, doubted US involvement
- February 1968
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