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It shows that we were willing to keep communism from escaping it's confines. We were not going to let the Communists force their beliefs onto innocent countries.
58,000 Dead 350,000 Casualties $584,000,000,000 Spent
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Media showed the general public the mass slaughter of people in Vietnam. Although the people in Vietnam were not at all American, but they were human. Many people saw this as not much of a war, but a manslaughter. This turned many people against LBJ
A Vietnam cease-fire agreement was signed in Paris by the U.S., North and South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong . The agreement provided for the return of U.S. prisoners of war in exchange for unilateral withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam. North Vietnam freed 590 U.S. prisoners of war by April 1 , and the last U.S. troops left Vietnam on March 29 .
"The Christmas Bombings," were a series of bombings aimed at North Vietnamese capital Hanoi, and the main seaport in Haiphong.
Last American combat troops leave Vietnam.
Cambodia, a neutral neighbor, was bombed by the USA 1969–75, with 1 million killed or wounded. Although US forces were never militarily defeated, Vietnam was considered a humiliating political defeat for the USA.
Nixon noted that the Communists had recently stepped up their attacks on Cambodia and were surrounding the capital city of Phnom Penh. Therefore, the US and South Vietnamese forces had to clean out the Communist bases in order to secure the freedom of South Vietnam and permit the process of Vietnamization to be successful.
The Chicago Tribune reports that in April 1968, President Johnson announced that that he would not seek re-election for another term.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) did not penetrate the VC high command, it did not warn of the Tet offensive of 1968 when Viet Cong battle-squads entered Saigon, Hue and other towns, and failed to reveal the buildup around the US base at Khe Sanh.
109 civilians were killed in My Lai by US troops. In 1969 there was enough evidence to charge 30 soldiers with war crimes.
Attack by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces on Saigon and other South Vietnamese towns during the Tet lunar new year festival.
Part of the Tet Offesive. One of the most gruesome battles in the Vietnam war.
Operation Cedar Falls against Communist-held Iron Triangle north of Saigon.
First Major battles between Viet-cong and American troops in November.
Strategic B-52 bombings that usually fly so high that they went undetected by people. This factor inflicted an extra feeling of terror.
A series of 2 or 3 bombings per week aimed in North Vietnam. The area frequently bombed was between Hanoi and the 17th parallel.
Two Marine Battalion Landing Teams of 3500 men arrived at Danang on March 8 and by mid-June, 75,000 US troops were in South Vietnam.
Two US Destroyers reported an attack by North Vietnamese vessels. Whether the attack was hostile or not is still unclear, but it caused the Us to become more involved with the North Coast.
Congressional resolution passed on 7 August 1964 which authorized President Lyndon Johnson to take all necessary measures to ensure the security of US armed forces and to defeat aggression in South-East Asia.
Elaborate system of routes along the South Vietnam border with Laos and Cambodia used to bring North Vietnamese supplies to Viet Cong forces in the 1964-1975 Vietnam War.
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