“The War’s End and Impact” Outline

READ THE U.S. HISTORY TEXTBOOK FROM PAGES 552-559 and ANSWER ALL OF THE QUESTIONS ON THE OUTLINE BELOW.

I.Nixon Starts the Pull-Out

  1. What were Richard Nixon’s main demands of the North Vietnamese Communists? (552)
  1. What did the North Vietnamese want from the U.S.? (553)
  1. How did Nixon respond to Vietnamese demands? (553)
  1. What was his strategy to get the U.S. out of Vietnam? (553)
  1. What was this called? (553)
  1. How did Nixon attempt to cut off Vietcong supplies? (553)
  1. Did Congress approve of this campaign? (553)
  1. How did this campaign affect the neutral government of Cambodia? (553)

II. Troubles on the Home Front intensify

  1. How did Nixon attempt to break the stalemate in Vietnam in 1970? (553)
  1. What was Nixon’s other goal in launching this attack? (553)
  1. Did this plan work?
  1. How did anti-war activists respond to Nixon’s announcement that the war would be expanded to Cambodia? (554)
  1. What happened on college campuses across the country? (554)
  1. What happened at Kent State four days after Nixon’s speech? (554)
  1. What did demonstrations against the war sometimes lead to? (554)
  1. What happened at the antiwar rally in New York City on May 8, 1970? (554-555)
  1. What happened in My Lai on March 16, 1968? (555)
  1. How many Vietnamese civilians were killed? (555)
  1. How did Lieutenant Calley justify his actions? (555)
  1. What did a military court do about this in March, 1971? (555)
  1. What were the Pentagon Papers? (555)
  1. Who was one of the main authors of it? (555)
  1. What did he do with them in 1971? (555)
  1. How did Nixon react when he found out about this? (555)
  1. What did the Papers reveal? (555)

III. The War Finally Ends

  1. How did most Americans feel about the Vietnam War by 1971? (555)
  1. What did the U.S. and North Vietnam agree to in 1972? (556)
  1. How did this affect the 1972 presidential election? (556)
  1. Why did the peace talks fall apart? (556)
  1. How did the U.S. get the North Vietnamese to accept a new peace agreement? (556)
  1. What did all the different nations agree to in the 1973 Paris Peace Accords? (556)
  1. What did the North Vietnamese Communists gain from the peace agreement? (556)
  1. What happened in Vietnam after the U.S. withdrew its troops? (556)
  1. Why were the North Vietnamese able to defeat the South Vietnamese? (556)
  1. When did Saigon fall to the Communists? (556)

IV. The Vietnam War Has a Lasting Impact

  1. How many American soldiers lost their lives in the Vietnam War? (557)
  1. How many American soldiers were wounded? (557)
  1. How many Vietnamese people were killed? (557)
  1. Where else did Communists come to power after the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam? (557)
  1. What did the Khmer Rouge do when they came to power? (557)
  1. How did the Vietnamese attempt to stop this? (557)
  1. What was the U.S. role in this conflict? (557)
  1. How had American foreign policy “experts” misjudged Communists? (557)
  1. How did the Vietnam War divide the U.S.? (558)
  1. How did this division affect returning soldiers? (559)
  1. How did the Vietnam War affect Lyndon Johnson’s domestic agenda? (559)
  1. What did Congress do to prevent another president from misleading the U.S. into war? (559)
  1. What powers did this act give Congress? (559)
  1. How did most Americans view foreign wars for the next 30 years? (559)