THE 1970S 1969 1979
FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON
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Vietnamization
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Detente
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Containment
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the Domino Theory
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Detailed explanation-1: -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".
Detailed explanation-2: -Publicly, Nixon said his strategy was a combination of negotiating and Vietnamization. In fact, he began the withdrawals even before he issued his secret ultimatum to the Communists, and he continued to announce partial troop withdrawals throughout his first term.
Detailed explanation-3: -Large U.S. troop withdrawals continued in the early 1970s as President Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempts to block enemy supply routes along Vietnam’s borders.