USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On May 8, 1970, Nixon held a press conference to defend the invasion of Cambodia . He argued that it bought six to eight months of training time for South Vietnamese forces, thereby shortening the war for Americans and saving American lives. He promised to withdraw 150, 000 American soldiers by the following spring.

Detailed explanation-2: -In April 1970, he expanded the war by ordering U.S. and South Vietnamese troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. The resulting outcry across the United States led to a number of antiwar demonstrations-it was at one of these demonstrations that the National Guard shot four protesters at Kent State.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam” was signed in Paris on January 27, 1973, and is now known as the Paris Peace Accords. The joint agreement included a cease-fire, the return of American prisoners of war and the withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam.

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".