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Vietnamization- Nixon's policy for winding down the war
 * troops withdrawn
 * training equipment given to south Vietnam
 * by 1972 only 24000 remained

BOMBING RAIDS INCREASED HOWEVER (hurt supply lines of north Vietnam, and expand bombing to other countries- Laos and Cambodia)

U.S. ground forces invaded Cambodia in spring 1970

-as a result protest increase as a result of expanding the war

-May 4th national guard sent in to stop the protesting 4 students killed, 3 of them weren't even protesters

-Nixon lose support from public and congress, don't want him to fight an undeclared war anymore

THE PENTAGON PAPERS they investigated themselves and realized that they told the people and what they have done were to different things. the government does not want them to, and doesn't want the people to know they were lied to. the issue goes to supreme court and they rule with NEW YORK TIMES.

PEACE TALKS: 1972 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho "peace is at hand" right after the election and Nixon won they bomb and 15 shot down but vietnamese civilians killed

-they have to come to a stop and in 1973 Nixon stated... POW were mistreated! developed communication called the TAP CODE THE POW RETURN! but people still believe that some are still in vietnam BUT IN 1975 -north Vietnam military attacks, Saidgons falls -Vietnam is reunited under communism
 * they had reached an agreement to restore peace in Vietnam called the PARIS PEACE ACCORD
 * and they would get the POW returned

(we won every battle, but lost the war)

-the U.S failed and Vietnam is still under communism till this day

THE LEGACY OF THE WAR: AMERICA COPES: 58000 americans killed thousands wounded $150 billion in direct costs U.S attempts to come to grips with a loss - blow to self-esteem MAJOR CHANGES DISILLUSIONMENT veterans extended a cold handsome veterans suffered from stress many citizens embittered toward government entire generation of americans was affected
 * 1.5 million Vietnamese deaths
 * countless vietnamese civilians wounded, homeless
 * agrarian society in shambles
 * southeast asia left highly unstable
 * government abolishes the draft
 * war powers act- curb the power of the president
 * altered American foreign policy