Un-popular
- US soldiers killed 504 Vietnamese civilians
- Dead civilians included fifty age 3 or younger
- Women were raped
- Bodies were mutilated
How people got out of serving
- Went to Canada or Sweden
- Went to college
- Got married
- Medically unfit for service
- Joined the National Guard or Peace Corps
- Claimed to be homosexual
- Being rich
Nixon and Vietnam
- Nixon called for the "vietnamization" of the war
- "Peace with Honor"
- Gradually pull US troops out and train the South to take our place in fighting in the North
- Expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia leading to college protests (Kent State)
The End
- January 15th, 1973, President Nixon announced the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam
- The Paris Peace Accords were later signed January 27, 1973 which officially ended US involvement in the Vietnam conflict
- 1. Fighting stopped
- 2. US would pull out of Vietnam
- 3. North and South Vietnam would recognize each others independence
After the US got out
- Peace agreement didn't last
- North invaded the South
- South wasn't strong enough and quickly fell
- US didn't live up to it's promise to come to their aid if the North invaded the South
- Vietnam is still communist today
Why did the US win the Cold War?
Why did the Soviet Union lose the War?
- We had close ties with Allies and Soviets didn't
- China started siding with us after 1972
- Soviet economy was in shambles whereas the US's was flourishing
- Soviet Union had huge deficit
- High inflation
- Corruption
- Social problems
- Shortage of basic needs (food, housing)
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