THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Richard M. Nixon
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John F. Kennedy (JFK)
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Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Detailed explanation-1: -The phrase is a variation on a campaign promise Nixon made in 1968: “I pledge to you that we shall have an honorable end to the war in Vietnam.” The Accords specified that a ceasefire would take place four days later.
Detailed explanation-2: -The major initiative in the Lyndon Johnson presidency was the Vietnam War. By 1968, the United States had 548, 000 troops in Vietnam and had already lost 30, 000 Americans there.
Detailed explanation-3: -27, 1973, peace accord, heralded by President Richard Nixon as “an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Nixon Doctrine, a foreign policy of the U.S. government, announced by U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon in 1969, whereby the United States would thereafter support allies facing military threats with economic and military aid rather than with ground troops.