Nixon and Ford's policies 1969-75
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- Nixon and Ford's policies 1969-75
- Failure of peace talks -
- end of march '68 - johnson admitted he had failed in vietnam
- elections were later than year but he declared he would not be running
- he reduced the level of bombing in the north and called for peace talks
- paris peace talks 1968
- the talks got nowhere, but it was clear by summer than the US gov was looking for a way out
- Nixon was elected in novemeber '68 and was determind to end the war
- Kissinger - october '72 he has worked out a peace agreement with N.V
- Kissinger was for peace, Nixon threatened N.V
- Attacks on Cambodia ('70) and Laos ('71) -
- communist retreating to the Ho Chi Minh trail in cambodia
- spring 1970 - Nixon authorised a series of bombing raids in Cambodia
- this sent shock through the US public
- feb 1971 - S.V troops with US air support laos
- they were defeated by the N.V army
- Vietnamisation 1969 -
- a US policy to end american involvement in Vietnam by developing the ARVN
- led by Nixon
- the ARVN would take a more direct role in seeking out the vietcong
- 393,000 to 532,000 troops
- the US was to provide equipment and training for the ARVN
- Ford (president 1974-77) -
- '75 - n.v fprced advancing on saigon, FOrd ordered the evacuation of US personal
- 40,000 US citizens and south vieetnamese were evacuated = operation frequent wind
- he offered 'clemency' to 'draft dogers' - they wouldn't be arrested
- 130,000 vietnamese refugees came to the US in '75
- ford blocked vietnams power within the UN, and refused to establish diplomatic relations
- N.V take over -
- 1975 - N.V forces roll into Saigon
- the communists take over vietnam
- 1975 - US removes all troops
- Failure of peace talks -
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