USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Richard Nixon’s Vietnam policy included all of the following EXCEPT:
A
massive bombing campaigns against North Vietnam
B
extension of the war into Cambodia
C
increased the number of American troops in Vietnam
D
Vietnamization
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -President Nixon ordered the incursion of U.S. ground troops into the neutral country of Cambodia in an effort to “root-out” any communist forces concentrated there. Although aware that this bold move would draw criticism from anti-war elements, Nixon believed the strategy necessary.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to “expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".

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