https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i By Sam J, Noah C, Jack E en-us 2021-05-12 15:10:11 UTC 2025-06-01 17:46:37 UTC hello@padlet.com 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849696 President Richard Nixon]]> 2021-05-12 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849696 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849698 Social ]]> 2021-05-12 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849698 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849699 2021-05-12 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849699 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849701 2021-05-12 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849701 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849702 2021-05-12 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849702 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849703 2021-05-12 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849703 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849706 2021-05-12 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849706 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849708 Vietnamization was a policy of Richard Nixons that was made to end the U.S involvement in the Vietnam War. It's ideas was to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign them to an ever-increasing combat role."]]> 2021-05-12 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1517849708 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524883940 After Nixon was elected in 1968, his Political goals shifted from focusing on the Vietnamese War to focusing on political relations with China and Soviet Russia.

]]> 2021-05-14 14:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524883940 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524895897 Nixon's legacy is that he started a long lasting era of peace with Soviet Russia, starting diplomacy with China, and a slow ending to the Vietnamese War. He is also known for his domestic acts, like OSHA and the Enviormental Protection]]> 2021-05-14 14:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524895897 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524916962 Nixon, whilst running for office, mentioned he had a 'secret plan' for ending the Vietnamese War. He was going to use Vietnamization, which worked extremely well. From 1969 to 1972, U.S. forces in Vietnam shrunk from 500,000 to 30,000. He also used aggressive tactics to halt the War, such as bombing North Vietnamese supply routes in Cambodia.]]> 2021-05-14 15:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524916962 9959692 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524920532 Nixon ended the Vietnam War in 1973, and decided to open trade relations with China. He also made the decision negotiate a treaty with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev to limit strategic nuclear weapons.]]> 2021-05-14 15:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524920532 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524947744 The changing culture that Vietnam War Veterans had was that the Vietnamese War had caused over 500,000 Veterans to develop PTSD. Rates of suicide, divorice, drugs, and alcoholism also were remarkably higher after the Vietnam War.]]> 2021-05-14 15:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524947744 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524961633 The consensus amongst Americans after the War was that the Government could not be trusted, due to the media and other sources.]]> 2021-05-14 15:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524961633 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524973817 Because of the Warfare, 500,000 acres of farmland and 5,000,000 acres of forest was destroyed. The War also left over 21,000,000 bomb craters in South Vietnam.]]> 2021-05-14 15:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524973817 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524983105 Due to Vietnam being a dense Jungle, the Viet Cong would hide in dense brush to ambush Americans. Due to this, the Americans came up with the solution to drop over 20,000,000 gallons of a deadly chemical that cleareds a way for the troops to go through. The "Agent Orange" was incinerated at Sea once the War was over, because it was too deadly to keep stored.]]> 2021-05-14 15:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524983105 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524989488 Elected in 1968, winning slightly. Re-elected in 1972, in one of the most landslide elections in American history. ]]> 2021-05-14 15:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524989488 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524995864 New chemicals, such as Agent Orange were used to clear brush and kill Viet Cong. ]]> 2021-05-14 15:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1524995864 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525005857 For the first time ever in U.S History, U.S troops were sent to Vietnam with M1 Garands, M1, M14 and M16 Carbines.]]> 2021-05-14 15:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525005857 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525013220 American Citizens were not supporting the War fully because they did not understand why we would be fighting it. Also, the support for the War fell because of the scarily increasing death toll.]]> 2021-05-14 15:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525013220 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525231961 The Vietnamese War affected Veterans because over 500,000 Veterans developed PTSD due to the conditions in Vietnam, along with rising alcholic, drug, divorce, and suicide rates amongst Veterans. Americna CItizens were also affected because the War-time jobs that were necessary in the past years were no longer needed, changing the economy and lifestyle of an average citizen.]]> 2021-05-14 16:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525231961 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525243543 Taxes were slightly raised at times, or not raised at all. Because of this, inflation rates rose at historic rates. The war costed over 168,000,000,000, which is the equivalent to 1 trillion dollars today. This included 111 billion dollars in military operations, and 28.5 billion to aid South Vietnam.]]> 2021-05-14 16:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525243543 9959692 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525290639 2021-05-14 16:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525290639 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525292014 "The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting" - Richard M. Nixon]]> 2021-05-14 16:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525292014 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525303690 You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.]]> 2021-05-14 16:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525303690 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525309197 "People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."]]> 2021-05-14 16:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525309197 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525318836 2021-05-14 16:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525318836 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525325614 2021-05-14 16:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525325614 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525330397 2021-05-14 16:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525330397 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525335119 2021-05-14 16:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525335119 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525339571 2021-05-14 16:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525339571 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525343665 2021-05-14 16:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1525343665 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1535930163 2021-05-18 14:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1535930163 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1535936718 2021-05-18 14:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1535936718 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1535937555 2021-05-18 14:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1535937555 9961102 https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1535942613 2021-05-18 14:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/9961102/ij5a17qg9t3cfc9i/wish/1535942613