Chapter 7- Nixons war

• what was vietmanisation ?

  • ARVN will be trained and carry on fighting without the US
  • US soldiers can return home
  • by end of the year 540,000 soldiers had returned home
• what were the problems Nixon faced ?

  • he could not win the war with regular tactics
  • nuclear weapons were to big if a risk
  • if the troops were withdrawn straight away communism would spread
• what do China and the USSR want ?

  to improve relations with th USA
• how do China and the USSR try to improve these relations ?

  • meet and discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons
  • US ask Soviets to encourage the north to end the war
  • Nixon visits communist China
  • Nixon asks China to persuade the north to end the war
• what happened in February 1971 ?

  • ARVN attacked the north in Laos
  • attack was supported by US aid
  • attack failed
  • communists in Laos gain more support
• what happened in march 1969 ?

  • Nixon gives permission to bomb cambodia
  • Nixon trys to keep it a secret
• what happened in April 1970 ?

  • Nixon orders invasion of Cambodia
  • Nixon calls for 150,000 more troops causing more protest
  • the Khmer Rouge (communist organisation) gain more support
• describe the war widening

  • destroy as many Vietcong bases before vietmanisation
  • many bases neighboured Cambodia
  • Ho chi Minh trail runs through Laos & Cambodia so Nixon tragets both
  • by 1972 it was clearvietmanisation wasn't working
  • North attack south in reatiliation