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In 1968, Richard Nixon was elected promises "peace with honor" in Vietnam.

Vietnamization - Nixon's policy for winding down the war -Withdraw our troops -training and equipment supplied to Vietnamize -Hurt supply lines of North Vietnam -Bombing expand to other countries - Laos and Cambodia

Nixon "US ground forces invaded Cambodia in Spring, 1970"

Kent State Massacre -Up rest in most US colleges. - Nixon loses support from public - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution repealed

Peace Talks - 1972 - election year - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho meet in France they say "Peace is at hand" - Nixon re elected - agreement reached on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam.

1975 - North Vietnam military attacks, Saigon falls Vietnam is reunited under communism.

Legacy - In Southeast Asia 1.5million Vietnamese deaths countless Vietnamese civilians wounded or dead left highly unstable - America Copes 58,000 killed 365,000 wounded $150 billion in direct costs US attempts to come to grip with a " loss "