HIS 170B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Chicano Movement, Baby Boom, Radical Chic
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Liberal consensus: after wwii, america was politically unified in liberal ideologies. 71% voted for lbj; everyone agreed on capitalist growth; racial liberalism was embraced, replacing segregation. Vietnam doesn"t feel like a victory at home. Us people no longer support the war even though militarily, we won. Now it is nixon"s responsibility to get us out of vietnam. In his 1968 campaign, he said he had a secret plan to get the us out of the war. Vietnamization: measured substitution of south vietnamese troops in place of american troops. This is how the war started, because south vietnam couldn"t fight north vietnam without us help. Purpose: give americans what the nixon administration would call a decent interval between the complete withdrawal of the american forces and the communist victory of north vietnam. Nixon knew there was no way to win this war financially or militarily. Nixon decided he is going to ramp up bombing of.
