1. Vietnamization
Richard Nixon won the November 1968 presidential election over Hubert Humphrey with only 43.5% of the popular vote (Schulzinger 275). Nixon campaigned with telling the public that he would end the Vietnam War. Nixon blamed President Johnson's actions of adding troops and criticized his decisions of escalating the war in Vietnam. Nixon adopted the technique of Vietnamization, which was a plan to replace American troops with South Vietnamese forces. The South Vietnamese army known as the ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, was virtually non- existent. ...
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