Richard Nixon promised to provide military support to South Vietnam if the situation worsened or the North launched an offensive. His plans included Vietnamization, Peace With Honor, and the Nixon Doctrine. Vietnamization aimed to withdraw U.S. troops and return control of the war to South Vietnam and train their army. The Nixon Doctrine said the U.S. would honor defense commitments but not commit troops elsewhere. Nixon refused to withdraw support for South Vietnam or allow a communist takeover. However, Vietnamization failed and the U.S. withdrew support, leading to the fall of South Vietnam to communist North Vietnam.

1. Nixon’s Promises & Plans In The
Vietnam War
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2. Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the
United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.

3.  Nixon had promised South
Vietnam
 That he would provide military
support to them, in the event of
a worsening situation, or an
offensive from the North.
 Plans:
 Vietnamization
 Peace With Honor
 Nixon Doctrine
 Aiding Cambodia from the
ground attack of Vietnamese
Army and Vietcong bases.

4. • Nixon announced a new
policy of
Vietnamization to
withdraw the more
than 500,000 American
soldiers from
Vietnam,return control
of the war to the South
Vietnamese ARVN and to
train the South Vietnam
troops.
• Nixon announced
the Nixon Doctrine, in
which he proclaimed that
the United States would
honor its current defense
commitments but that it
would not commit troops
anywhere else.

5. • Nixon refused to withdraw from Vietnam and form a communist
government in South Vietnam and continued in his policy of
“Vietnamization”. This act was called “Peace with Honor”.
• Nixon found out about the Vietnamese offensive in Cambodia so he
carries the war to Cambodia. North Vietnam remained determined
to have peace on its terms or no peace at all.

6. • Antiwar activists argued
that Nixon made the
world a more
dangerous place and
that he is taking risks by
widening the war.
College students that
protested were mostly
found dead.
• Nixon starts sending more
troops in Vietnam. They
reached a place called “My
Lai” which had strong
Vietcong presence. Many US
soldiers were injured and
killed and an amount of 4OO-
5OO Vietnamese unarmed
civilians were shot and killed.
It was a disaster.

7. • On the heels of My Lai
came the publication of the
Pentagon Papers, a
classified government
history of America’s
involvement in Vietnam in
“The New York Times”! This
made it hard for Nixon not
to pull US troops out if
Vietnam.
• Vietnamization was a
failure. Nixon and the
country came to a the idea
of withdrawing American
troops out of Vietnam even
if South Vietnam would end
up being a communist
country.

8. • The United States and North
Vietnam came to terms on a peace
settlement in 1972. Nixon did win
the election. North Vietnam refused
to sign the agreement to provide
peace between the nations but as
soon as the US started bombing
North Vietnam, they signed it. The
Paris Peace Accords was also signed
were it stated that the US troops
could leave south Vietnam.
• It was an end to the US but North
and South Vietnam started fighting
again. With the soviets aiding the
North and no one aiding the south,
the North took over South Vietnam!