THE 1970S 1969 1979
FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON
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Vietnamization
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Tet Offensive
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Detente
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Gulf of Tonkin Initiative
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the meantime, President Nixon began cutting back on the num-ber of troops in Vietnam. He set up a plan called Vietnamization. It called for a gradual withdrawal of American troops and for the South Vietnamese army to take over more of the fighting.
Detailed explanation-2: -On April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the end of the Tet Offensive, both sides had endured losses, and both sides claimed victory. The U.S. and South Vietnamese military response almost completely eliminated the NLF forces and regained all of the lost territory.
Detailed explanation-4: -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".