Wednesday, April 23rd

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• • Injuring/Killing innocent people

    • My Lai Massacre

      • US soldiers killed 504 Vietnamese civilians.

      • The dead civilians included fifty age 3 or younger, 69 between 4 and 7, and 27 in their 70’s or 80’s.

      • Women were raped and bodies were mutilated.

  • Supporting a bad government in South

  • The power of the press

• How did people get out of serving?

  • went to Canada or Sweden

  • went to college (student deferment)

  • got married

  • medically unfit for service

  • joined the National Guard ot Peace Corps

  • claimed to be homosexual

  • being rich

• De-escalation & “Peace with Honor”

  • Nixon

    • called for the “vietnamization” of the war

    • “Peace with Honor”

      • end the war without heads held high

    • Gradually pull US troops out and train the ARVN to take our place in fighting the North.

    • Expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia leading to college protests (Kent St.)

• The End

  • On Jan, 15, 1973, Nixon announced the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.

  • The Paris Peace Accords were later signed on Jan. 27, 1973 which officially ended US involvement in the Vietnam conflict.

    • Fighting stopped

    • US would pull out of Vietnam

    • North and South Vietnam would recognize each other’s independence.

  • The peace agreement didn’t last.

  • The North invaded the South.

  • Saigon fell on April 30, 1975.