notes
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 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 ARVN to take our place in fighting the north
Expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia leading to college protests
In mid January Nixon announced the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
The Paris Peace Accords were later signed which ended US involvment
peace agreement did not last
North invaded South
Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
War Powers Act of 1973 limits the power of the president to wage war.
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