THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Nixon didn’t ask congressional approval first
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it opened the door for communism to spread into Cambodia
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it widened the war when Nixon was supposed to be de-escalating it
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it was an effective strategy to cripple the VC in the Mekong Delta
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nixon launched raids against North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos to disrupt supply lines. Nixon wanted to secure peace by training the South Vietnamese to fight the communists after U.S. troops left completely and to negotiate a peace settlement.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nixon believed North Vietnam was transporting troops and supplies through neighboring Cambodia into South Vietnam. He hoped that bombing supply routes in Cambodia would weaken the United States’ enemies.
Detailed explanation-3: -The objective of the campaign was the defeat of the approximately 40, 000 troops of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong (VC) in the eastern border regions of Cambodia.
Detailed explanation-4: -President Nixon, at a news conference, defends the U.S. troop movement into Cambodia, saying the operation would provide six to eight months of time for training South Vietnamese forces and thus would shorten the war for Americans.