1. Nixon’s Plan
Peace with Honor
Increase Bombing
Vietnamization
Détente

2. Peace With Honor
Get out of the war honorable without hurting our international and national image
Easier said than done!

3. Increase Bombing
North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
Solidify S.V. boarders

4. Response? Americans viewed this as increasing war not ending
Led to increased protests
Kent State Massacre

5. Kent State Massacre Protest against bombing
Ohio National Guard killed four students and wounded 9 others
April 30th 1970

6. Vietnamization Slowly pull out US troops
Turn war over the South Vietnamese

7. Détente
Decrease tensions between US and SU
Prevent future Vietnams

8. My Lai Massacre
Lt. Calley and troops massacred 365 women children and elderly
Brutality reached America
Major impact on American support for soldiers

9. Slow Withdraw January of 1973- Signed Peace Agreement US will pull out
Return of POW’s
April 30, Saigon Falls

10. Returning Soldiers PTSD Discriminated Against
Struggled to re-enter civilian lifestyle

11. Southeast Asia South Vietnam fell to Communist
Saigon remained Ho Chi Minh City
Cambodian Genocide- Khmer Rouge

12. Vietnam War Memorial
Enshrined in 1981
Maya Lin- designer