THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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attack Cambodia and Laos to secure the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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replace U.S. troops with ARVN (South Vietnamese army personnel)
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drop leaflets on North Vietnam trying to get the people to fight for a unified non-communist Vietnam.
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to bomb North 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: -And this trait has been carried over into our foreign policy, ” President Richard Nixon told the nation in a televised address on November 3, 1969, explaining that the United States would no longer take the lead in the fight against the North Vietnamese.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -In June 1969 Nixon announced the withdrawal of 25, 000 U.S. troops from Vietnam. In September he announced further troop withdrawals, and by March 1970 he was announcing the phased withdrawal of 150, 000 troops over the next year.