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Nixon's Influence on the Vietnam War, Claims, Claims, Claims - Coggle…

- - - - North Vietnam was supported by USSR and China
      - not just a local conflict
  - - - Transfer responsibilities to South Vietnam #
      - Reduce American involvement
        
        1969 troop withdrawals begin
        
        Continue Paris peace talks started by Johnson
        
        1973-74 US aid to South Vietnam reduced from $2.2b to $700m
        
        1973 cease fire, end of draft, last American troops leave
    - - 1969 Viet Cong ignore ceasefire on Tet holiday
        
        1970 Operation Menu invasion and bombing of Cambodia
      - 1972 Easter Offensive
        
        1972 Escalated bombing runs against North Vietnam
  - - - Veterans
        
        To non-supporters: participated in an unjustified war
        
        To supporters: lost the war
      - American invincibility disillusioned
    - - Anti-war songs
      - students, politicians, "hippies", human rights activists
      - https://weta.org/tv/program/vietnam-war/local/timeline
- - - - Domestic product rose 6% yearly
  - - - maintain US-Canadian relations
  - - - $29 million from 1950-1975
    - - integral part of Free World Assistence Plan
        
        Ottawa stopped shipments North Vietnam
  - - - many refugees from South Vietnam
      - Canada
        
        admitted >5,600 Vietnamese in 1975,1976
        
        mainly migrants already living in Canada
        
        1979 Canada welcomed 60,000 refugees
        
        second wave
        
        "boat people"
  - - - presumption of Hanoi's guilt and Saigon's innocence
    - - cabinet papers
        
        Canada willing ally of US
        
        Espionage for CIA
- - - - Anti-war protests and peace marches
        
        1967-1968
        
        Peace march 1967 widely broadcasted
    - - war reduced financial aid Chile was getting
  - - - condemned imperialism in Vietnam+Cambodia
      - 1965 stated duty of socialist states to support North Vietnam
      - anti-American after Bay of Pigs
        
        outspoken against interventionism and imperialism
      - vocally critical of Vietnam War
    - - Encouraged China+USSR aid
  - - - involvement limited
    - - condemned America's approach to foreign policy
  - - - 1970 officially condemned invasion of Cambodia
- - - - unjustified war
    - - lost war
    - - "forgotten war"
- - - - Canada hides actions more than US government
        
        Cabinet papers found in US refused access in Canada