APUSH Chapter 32 Part 1

Question 1

Silent majority speech

Answer 1

Nov. 1969
Nixon speaks to nation on tv
Announces vietnamization
Calls on “silent majority” to voice support for war plan

Question 2

Nixon’s Vietnamization

Answer 2

Withdraw the 540,000 US troops from Vietnam
Supply S. Vietnamese with weapons, training, etc
Gradually cede control of war

Question 3

Nixon Doctrine

Answer 3

Developed as part of silent majority speech
US will
1. Honor its treaty commitments
2. Provide nuclear protection to nations if needed
3. Provide military aid but defense will be supplied primarily by threatened nation
South Korea ?

Question 4

Cambodia

Answer 4

Apr 1970
Nixon orders US forces to invade Cambodia
Goal is to eliminate the Ho Chih Minh Trail
Supplied by Viet Cong w/ weapons, supplies, etc
Unknown to the public, US had been bonding Cambodia and Laos for years
Protests break across US (Kent State, Jackson MI)

Question 5

Henry Kissinger

Answer 5

German born, family flees Hitler Germany
Former Harvard professor
Nixons national security advisor
Begins to meet w N. Vietnamese officials Paris 1969

Question 6

Election 1972

Answer 6

Nixon vs. McGovern

Oct 26 Kissinger “peace is at hand”

Question 7

The Christmas Bombings

Answer 7

Negotiations break off dec. 1972 
Nixon orders full scale bombings of N. Vietnam 
600 civilians 
Lasts two weeks again 
Negotiations begin again late December

Question 8

The Treaty of Paris 1973

Answer 8

Cease fire 
US withdraws troops 
American POWs returned 
NV troops remain in SV 
free elections on SV 
Nixon claims "peace w honor"

Question 9

Operation Homecoming

Answer 9

Return of American POWs from NV

Question 10

The fall of Saigon

Answer 10

Apr. 1975 
US begins to reduce aid and funding of SV 
many forced to reeducation camps
Communism spreads to Laos and Cambodia 
No further domino effect