USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE VIETNAM WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
President ____ came up with Vietnamization
A
Ford
B
Reagan
C
Johnson
D
Nixon
Explanation: 

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: -Starting in 1970, Nixon began to implement the war strategy of Vietnamization, which was the strategic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam in order to instead place the burden of the conflict on the South Vietnamese.

Detailed explanation-3: -President Nixon believed his Vietnamization strategy, which involved building up South Vietnam’s armed forces and withdrawing U.S. troops, would prepare the South Vietnamese to act in their own defense against a North Vietnamese takeover and allow the United States to leave Vietnam with its honor intact.

Detailed explanation-4: -’Vietnamisation’ was an American strategic policy pertaining to Vietnam. It was developed and implemented by United States president Richard Nixon in 1969. Its aim was to facilitate the self-sufficiency of South Vietnamese troops and allow the gradual withdrawal of United States troops from South Vietnam.

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