Nixon
Vietnam War under Nixon
- Vietnamization-President Nixon's strategy gradually to withdraw the 540,000 troops from South Vietnam over a period of time; the South Vietnamese could gradually take over the fighting with American money, weapons, training, and advice
- Cambodia-beginning April 1970, US bombed areas in Cambodia and eventually in Laos as well in order to destroy the Ho Chi Minh Trail, to supply the Viet Cong; the US public did not know of this until 1973
- War Powers Act- November 1973; required the president to report all commitments of the US troops to foreign exchanges within 48 hours