The war in veitnam Only hours after Lyndon Johnson Had became president of the United States in 1963, his first words on the Vietnam War were "I am not going to lose Vietnam. ... Johnson believed that the key to success in the war in Vietnam was to frighten North Vietnam's leaders with the possibility of full-scale U.S. military intervention. ... The North Vietnamese wanted the unification of the country and the total evacuation of all us troops and a halt to their involvement in South Vietnam. ... Promising an end to the war in Vietnam, Richard Nixon won a narrow victory in the el...

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They asked the government to quickly withdraw all troops home, end this unjust war. ... These acts were the students' reaction to President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, aiming at cut off supply routes from North to South Vietnam. ... The confrontation between students and the force had lasted for 36 hours. ... Along with the protest of the Vietnam War all over the world, the anti-war movement in America has contributed to put an end to the intervention of the US Army in South Vietnam. ... In early 1973, Nixon signed the Treaty of Paris to get out of "the Vietnam marsh", to...

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This war caused a major division among the people and between the people and the United States government. ... The French were losing and were not able to control the communist North Vietnamese from invading South Vietnam. ... There was a meeting between the major powers at the time to try and come to an agreement as to what to do with Indochina. ... No one would ever take us seriously again. On August 2, 1964 the USS Maddox was off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, when it was fired upon by some North Vietnam gunboats. ...

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Prior to the Vietnam War, the use of the helicopter had been limited to transporting the wounded from the battlefield. ... In late October of 1965 the troops of 1st brigade were sent into battle after a large North Vietnamese force attacked the Plei Me Special Forces camp. ... The war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United States involvement the number of people against it grew. ... The Vietnam War was the first war in the history of the United States to be ...

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Covert dialogue between Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam dragged on with little progress. ... Nixon hoped that improved relations with the Chinese and the Soviets would spur a quick exit from Vietnam the summits did little to push the war towards its end. ... In January 1973, the United States and North Vietnam negotiated a peace. ... North Vietnam also wanted the president of South Vietnam Thieu dumped. ... Nixon also told the American public, "Now that we have achieved an honorable agreement, let us be proud that America did not settle for a peace that would have betrayed our allies, th...

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Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. ... The other, more importantly, allowed Congress to use Congressional power to prevent the Executive from taking us into a third Indo-Chinese war. ... Then too, as with the undeclared war in Vietnam, this was a bi-partisan phenomenon. ... Congress passed war powers bills but they died with the session when the differences between them could not be reconciled. ... Senators Church of Idaho and Case of New Jersey introduced a bill forbidding the use of any funds whatsoever to finance the re-involve...

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He ended United States involvement in Indochina. ... One thing that engulfed the President was the Vietnam War. ... He began to end the war slowly by withdrawing troops while assisting South Vietnam with the ability to defend it self. Meanwhile criticism from the anti-war movement and the media was increasingly growing with such things as the Cambodian incursion in 1970 and the bombing of North Vietnam in May and December of 1972. In January 1973 President Nixon ordered a halt to all offensive operations in North Vietnam after representatives from all sides of the war met in Paris France a...

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During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, tension was created because the USSR supported Arab countries while the US supported Israel. ... Johnson encountered one of his biggest obstacles in 1959 when the Vietnam War had begun as a result of Communist-led nationalists rising to opposition to the government in South Vietnam (Encarta 2001, "Johnson, Lyndon Baines".) ... That was the only event that occurred before Johnson was fully in support of the Vietnam War and increased military involvement. After months upon months of brutal war, Johnson resolved that he would put and end to the crisis and pursu...

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