Vietnam+The+End


 * Vietnamization- Vietnamese should fight their own war and US troops were withdrew
 * Trained South Vietnam to fight their own war and gave them weapons to use
 * But as troops decrease US bombings increase to try and hurt North Vietnam supply lines
 * Bombed Cambodia and also began to send troops into Cambodia to stop their supplies
 * Expanding the war into Cambodia
 * Protests began and national guard brought in to stop it and four American students were killed and three of them were not protesting they were changing classes
 * Pentagon Papers- US government investigated their own army and why they went into Vietnam and what was happening and what the public was being told were different
 * New York Times printed this and then the public felt angered about what the government was doing
 * Bombings increased after Nixon's reelection
 * January 27, 1972 peace treaty is made
 * North Vietnam didn't treat them fairly in the camps
 * With the treaty Prisoners of War were sent home
 * North Vietnam attacks in 1975 and Vietnam is reunited under communism
 * 1.5 million Vietnamese deaths
 * Countless Vietnamese civilians wounded and homeless
 * Southeast Asia is unstable and Cambodia falls to communism
 * 58,000 Americans killed, 365,000 wounded
 * $150 billion in direct costs
 * U.S. gets rid of the draft
 * War Powers Act, Congress can pull out troops within 90 days
 * Altered foreign policy, don't want another Vietnam
 * Overall cynicism in America, government says it, it must be a lie
 * Disilusionment, veterans extended a cold hand, suffered from stress
 * Many citizens embittered toward government
 * Entire generation of Americans are affected