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Election of 1968 and Nixon Administration

Election of 1968 and Nixon Administration. Standard 8.3 E.Q. How did Nixon’s campaign impact Vietnam? . Election of 1968. Public opposition and a split within the Democratic Party over the war led Lyndon Johnson to withdraw his name from the Democratic President nomination in the election.

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Election of 1968 and Nixon Administration

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  1. Election of 1968 and Nixon Administration Standard 8.3 E.Q. How did Nixon’s campaign impact Vietnam?

  2. Election of 1968 • Public opposition and a split within the Democratic Party over the war led Lyndon Johnson to withdraw his name from the Democratic President nomination in the election. • During the Convention of 1968, violence erupted in Chicago because of corruption in the Nixon administration.

  3. Vietnamization • Vietnamization strategy for ending US involvement in the gradual withdrawal of US troops and their replaced by Vietnamese forces. • “Peace with honor” • Massive bombing campaign to Laos and Cambodia. • Protests continued with a massive peace march in Washington.

  4. Nixon Policy to end the war • Nixon ended the draft and initiated a lottery system, the protest movement was somewhat calmed but intensified again when American forces invaded Cambodia to close the Ho Chi Minh trail. • Nixon opened a dialogue with China in hopes of undermining Chinese support for the North Vietnamese

  5. Nixon Policy on war • Nixon administration on the eve of the 1972 election, announced that they had reached an agreement with North Vietnam. (Paris Peace accords) • Withdraw the Us troops from Vietnam. • Release of prisoners of war • Vietnam is bigger than the failed war effort and the loss of 58,000 American soldiers.

  6. Events to question Americans values • My Lai Massacre: US soldiers found guilty of wartime atrocities for executing 200 – 400 civilians in a village where they believed the Viet Cong to be hiding. • Tried to cover up the massacre of unarmed Vietnamese village. • Agent Orange: chemical herbicide used to kill vegetation; also found to cause cancer.

  7. Events to question American values • Napalm: chemical fireball dropped from the sky that was used to kill the vegetation. • Pentagon Papers: documented the history of US involvement in Vietnam. • Revealed the government had drawn up plans for entering the war even as Johnson promised that he would not send troops. • Papers also showed that there was never any plan to end the war as long as the North Vietnamese persisted.

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