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 * THE END OF VIETNAM!!!!:
 *  Nixon promises "Peace with Honor". Is going to do this with Vietnaimiztion because the war is in Vietnam so they should be the ones fighting.
 *  Troops withdrawn which increased bombs! Dropped more bombs than before!
 *  Hurt supply lines to North Vietnam
 *  Wants to make it look like he did everything he could to win the war.
 *  Then he is not only bombing Cambodia but he is going to send troops into Cambodia in 1970.
 *  Protests increase like CRAZY because of the new war
 *  The protests get violent and people are killed. One at Kent State the National Guard comes and shots are fired.
 *  Nixon does not get as much support from congress
 *  The Pentagon Papers are released and the government realizes what they have been doing in Vietnam and what they did and what they told the people are different things and they don't want the people to know.
 *  The New York Times get a hold of it and they publish it after it goes to court.
 *  Nixon has a good relationship with the Soviets and he meets with other heads of countries and they say, "Peace is at Hand."
 *  Election! and Nixon wins again
 *  12 straight days of bombing and they drop tons and tons of bombs and 15 US bombers are shot down
 *  They decide that they need to come to a stop soon! and end the war
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> Nixon goes on television and come to Paris Peace Accords and they get all the POW people get to come home.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> American POW's are not treated okay, and against Veniva Protocal.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> They are seriously mean and do terrible things to them (like John Macain)
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> They developed a way of talking by taps and gave them communication. They had this whole way of letters
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> Some people feel that there are still POWs in Vietnam and there is no direct evidence but not everyone who went got back.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> In 1975, North Vietnam attacks and Saigon falls and Vietnam is reunited to communism and the American Embessy is taken over.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> The US lost the war because they went there to stop communism and that did not happen and so they lost.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> 1.5 million deaths
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> Countless civilians wounded and homeless and Cambodia got Polpot got into Cambodia and was terrible and is very genocide supportive.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> There were camps where if you were educated or you did not like communism and they tourchered and it was TERRIBLE.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> America has to cope with the loss. They lost 58,000 Americans killed.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> 365,000 wounded and there are 150$ billion of direct costs.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> The Economy is seriously hurting and they did not even have gas.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> Changes! There is no draft...
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> War Powers Act- they can curb the power of the President
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> Altered the American foreign policys
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Disillusionment-


 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> was not given parades, they were not treated well as a group and people called them baby killers.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> Just because they did not like the war, they did not like the warriors and most of them suffered from stress.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> Many citizens embittered toward government
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> Entire generation of American was affected
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> 7 years later they put up the wall for the memorial