https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr Nixon's Actions to End American Involvement in the Vietnam War en-us 2018-04-09 12:50:08 UTC 2023-02-17 05:58:28 UTC hello@padlet.com martinezm1 https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249771660 Nixon's policy of gradually withdrawing troops and giving more of the fighting to the South Vietnamese. During the war in 1968, Lieutenant William Calley had his platoon massacre unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in a small town known as My Lai. He was detained as a war criminal and the public disliked the war even more than before. The book, Who Spoke Up?: American Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 1963–1975, "To kill on military orders and be a criminal, or to refuse to kill and be a criminal is the moral agony of America’s Vietnam war generation."]]> 2018-04-09 13:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249771660 martinezm1 https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249772905 On January 27th, 1973, negotiations to end the war were successful. All American troops were withdrawn and the North and South traded prisoners. Direct American involvement ceased after 8 years of fighting. President Ford proclaimed in 1975, "The lessons of the past in Vietnam have already been learned—learned by Presidents, learned by Congress, learned by the American people—and we should have our focus on the future.”]]> 2018-04-09 13:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249772905 martinezm1 https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249774047 In 1972, there were some setbacks in ending the war when the North refused to withdraw troops from the South. In an attempt to force negotiations to continue, the United States conducted the "Christmas bombings." These were massive bombing raids for 11 straight days on North Vietnamese targets where hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs were dropped. Henry Kissinger stated, Henry Kissinger, was reported to have said, “We bombed the North Vietnamese into accepting our concessions.” As a result, negotiations continued.]]> 2018-04-09 13:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249774047 martinezm1 https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249775635 In 1969, Nixon appointed Henry Kissinger as an assistant to special affairs to try and reduce Soviet and Chinese involvement in the war, as well as secretly negotiating with North Vietnamese negotiator, Le Duc Tho. ]]> 2018-04-09 13:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249775635 martinezm1 https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249776373 In 1970, American troops invaded Cambodia to destroy Vietcong bases there. Many Americans thought this expanded the war, and with the leaking of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg confirmed Americans'  fears of the government not being honest with the public.]]> 2018-04-09 13:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/martinezm1/4w3xdpkh6ypr/wish/249776373