THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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turning the war over to South Vietnam so the US could leave
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invading North Vietnam and overthrowing Ho Chi Minh
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getting Vietnam to annex Cambodia and Laos
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bombing 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: -Vietnamization was a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. The increasingly unpopular war had created deep rifts in American society.
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: -Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.