THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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trained South Vietnamese forces to take over combat responsibilities from U.S. troops
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shared military technology with North Vietnam
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imposed martial law in North Vietnam
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installed a puppet government in South Vietnam
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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: -In order to buy time with the American people, Nixon began to withdraw forces from Vietnam, meeting with South Vietnam’s President Nguyen Van Thieu on Midway Island on June 8 to announce the first increment of redeployment.
Detailed explanation-3: -The administration introduced the policy of “Vietnamization, ” a program designed to shift the responsibility of the war from the U.S. to the South Vietnamese, allowing the United States to gradually withdraw its troops from Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Nixon Doctrine marked the formal announcement of the president’s “Vietnamization” plan, whereby American troops would be slowly withdrawn from the conflict in Southeast Asia and be replaced by South Vietnamese troops.