US History › Section O · The 1960s and 1970s › Topic O.6
Vietnam: escalation to withdrawal
Richard Nixon promised "peace with honor" in Vietnam, but American troops took more than four years to leave, the war spread into Cambodia, and protest at home turned deadly. The war ended in a communist victory in 1975 and left deep scars on Vietnam, on the veterans and on Americans' trust in their government.
In this topic
- Nixon inherits the war
- A brutal war on all sides
- My Lai
- Vietnamization and Cambodia
- Kent State and Jackson State, 1970
- Worked example: was the draft fair?
- Worked example: the Pentagon Papers
- The Paris Peace Accords, 1973
- The fall of Saigon and the costs
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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