Vietnam+-+The+End

-Nixon promised "peace with honor" in 'Nam. -Vietnamization - Nixon's policy for for winding down the war -troops withdrawn -training and equipment given to South Vietnamese -by 1972 only 24,200 troops -bombing raids increase!!! -hurts supply lines of North Vietnam -bombing expanded to other countries - Laos and Cambodia -Nixon wanted enemy to know he would do anything to win -US ground forces invaded Cambodia in Spring 1970 -This leads to more domestic violence by students - At kent university 4 killed, 3 were going to next class -Nixon loses support from the public and congress -Gulf of Tonkin repealed - The Pentagon papers - Newspapers get stuff from the government and tell the people. -The papers compared what happened to the war to what the government said -Peace talks between Henry kissinger and Le Duc Tho in 1972 election year -Nixon re-elected, Christmas bombing, biggest bombing ever, huge civilian casualties -Jan. 27 1973 decided that war in vietnam is over -POWMIA - prisoners of war missing in action -Hanoi Hilton is most famous (brutal) camp for POW -John McCain was a prisoner for 7 years -most were shot down and captured pilots -many methods of torture -made a tap code to talk -1975 military attack again vietnam fell to communism -April 1975 is when vietnam war was done! -Legacy: 1.5 million Vietnamese deaths, many wounded, southeast asia is unstable, cambodia falls to communism -America has to cope! -58,000 americans die -365,000 wounded -$150 billion in direct costs -U.S. attempts to come to grips with a 'loss' - blow to self esteem -changes in US policy -Changes as a result: gov abolishes the draft, War Powers act - curb the power of the pres.,altered American foreign policy -Disillusionment: Veterans extended a cold hand, some suffered from stress, many citizens are embittered toward gov., entire generation of americans was affected