The+End+of+Vietnam

LEADING TO THE END OF VIETNAM
 * Richard Nixon is elected
 * Vietnamization- his policy for winding down the war
 * to withdraw troops, give equipment to SV
 * bombs increased though
 * Vietnam gets it's supplies through Cambodia and Laos, so US bombed them too
 * Ground forces invade Cambodia as well to stop supply lands
 * Protesting increases- Kent State Massacre + Jackson State- leading to chaos
 * Nixon loses support and Congress repeals the Gulf of Tonkin
 * 1971-- the Pentagon does an investigation of what the Government did and said
 * The government doesn't want it to get out, and limited Nixon's executive power
 * But Nixon keeps his popularity-- and in 1972 "peace is at hand" wih peace talks
 * After voting, bombing goes up and hits many civilians, with peace talks stopping
 * 1973 an agreement is reached on ending the war and resotring peace, with a promise that all POW will be returned
 * Then it comes out that the Vietnamese kept Americans in non-regulation POW camps
 * With no US troops, NV attack, Saigon falls, Vietnam is reunited under communism.

LEGACY OF VIETNAM
 * Agriculture is gone, dead
 * SE Asia is left unstable
 * Cambodia falls to communist terror-- stopped in 1979 with help from Vietnam
 * America attempts to grip with their loss, self-esteem boost