HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Vietnam War, Douglas Pike, Paris Peace Accords
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Between 1964~68: us maintained a successfully conducting limited managed war that it was winning: proof: the period of the daily body counts (how many vietcong had been killed in last 24 hrs) Vietnam): becoming necessary to keep enough for increasing civil disobedience movement among young americans things volatile at home (burning houses down) Johnson proposes a peace talk calls a temporary halt to bombing north vietnam. Peace talk in 1968 @ paris, by 1973 produce a cease-fire. Partly in response to the anti-war movement richard nixon calls an end to the draft (conscription), begins vietnamization of war . Us congress more and more hostile for the war that they did not agree with. Nixon bribed individual congressmen their vote would result in new military procurement contracts for local companies in their constituencies. Growing recognition in the us have to do something about improving conditions in the countryside.
