Nixon Foreign Policy Dates Flashcards
When does Nixon announce a plan to remove 25,000 troops from Vietnam?
June 1969
When is the Nixon Doctrine established?
July 1969
When is Nixon’s Five Point Peace plan?
October 1970
When is the mining of North Vietnam announced on live TV?
May 1972
When are the Paris Peace Accords signed?
January 1973
When does Nixon issue a warning to the Vietcong?
March 1969
When does North Vietnam initially reject peace?
November 1969
When does Nixon declare “peace with honour”?
Januaru 1973
What was the ‘Madman Theory’?
Nixon wanted North Vietnam to believe he had reached the point of madness and was capable of anything.
How did Nixon attempt to prove the ‘Madman Theory’?
- bombed Cambodia
- talked about bombing the dikes of North Vietnam that could’ve drowned over 1 million people
What was the ‘Vietnamization’ policy?
a policy of building up and training the South Vietnamese to take over responsibility for their own defence enabling a drawdown of US troops which Nixon knew would be politically popular.
What was Lam Son 719?
1971 - an offensive against the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos and Cambodia, a success of Vietnamization but it did little in the way of overall success.
When did North Vietnam propose a peace deal?
October 1972
When did Nixon visit China?
February 1972
How did Nixon drawing closer with China affect US relations with Russia?
USSR feared being isolated by the two other powers and therefore relations with US improved
