The+End+of+Vietnam

=The End of Vietnam =
 * Richard Nixon elected
 * promises "peace with honor" in Vietnam
 * Vietnamization- Nixon's policy for winding down the war
 * troops withdrawn
 * training and equipment given to South Vietnamese
 * troops were declining
 * bombing raids increases- hurt supply lines of North Vietnam- bombing expanded to other countries, Laos and Cambodia
 * US ground forces invaded Cambodia in Spring 1970
 * stop supply lines
 * May 4, 1970- Kent Sate University
 * shooting occurred- 4 students killed
 * leads to more domestic upheaval and student arrest
 * Nixon loses support from the public and Congress- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution repealed
 * The Pentagon Papers
 * the NY times
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">government doing something different than they're saying
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Peace Talks-1972
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"peace at hand"
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nixon reelected
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">January 27, 1973
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">agreement reached on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">US given promise all POWs would be returned
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">POW camps
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">torture
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">no medical treatment
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">awful places
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">water torture
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">no conversations with other prisoners
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">tap codes to communicate
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1975
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">North Vietnam military attacks Saigon falls
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Vietnam is reunited under communism
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">US ended up losing war
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Legacy of the War
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Southeast Asia
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1.5 million Vietnamese deaths
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">countless Vietnamese civilians wounded, homeless
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">agrarian society in shambles
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Southeast Asia left highly unstable
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cambodia fell to communism after terror
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">America Copes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">58,000 Americans killed
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">365,000 wounded
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">$150 billion in direct costs
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">US attempts to come to grips with a "loss"- blow to self-esteem