HELP! Is Nixon the president that pulls American troops out of the Viet. War?

Question

HELP HELP HELP! Just took a test, and I spent like an hour looking through the book to see if it WAS nixon or not. I think it was him, but i'm bad with names, and it was an essay... and I spent like half a page writing about how Nixon took troops out of the Viet War.

So is that right?
or wrong?

When answering, please! don't just put yes or no to answer and get points, maybe a little background info?

it'd be really helpful!

first person with a good answer and good reasoning will get the best answer thingg!

help help help!!!

okay. now two answers, both possibly correct, and i'd feel TOTALLY better if you had clarifications OR were both yes or no.cuz they're contradictory...
(cries in distress!)

THANKS EVERYONE!

I feel so much better now, cuz my grade totally depended on this. hahahaha. (such a loserr)

aim: taintedreticence

LOL thanks guys, but I already said the first who gave a complete answer that made the most sense would get the best answer thingg. So... yeah. thanks for all your help though!

Answer 1

Yes, it was Nixon who withdrew from Vietnam.

When Johnson did not run for a second term, and Nixon came in, there came a time, because of the very severe anti-war activity, when he began withdrawing troops. At the same time, he tried to support what was there by bombing routes used by the Vietcong in Cambodia and Laos. But there was a period of peace negotiation that finally came to be effective. He had continued to withdraw troops all this time, and said that he was "Vietnamizing" the war, that is, turning it over to the South Vietnamese army entirely. So when the peace accords in Paris finally came into effect, we split.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Paris_Peace_Accords_.281973.29

Answer 2

The Vietnam War is a conflict between North Vietnam and it's communist allies, Soviet U nion, P eople's Republic of China and the front liberation movement to free South Vietnam against
South Vietnam , and it's allies US, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea. From 1959-1965 it has always been a cold war. Upon the assasination of Kennedy and Pres Diem .it wasn't till 1965 when massive troops were sent . Pres JOhnson was in power that's why he was taunted as the baby killer. Nixon became popular for the My Lai massacre. The complete withdrawal of the troops didn't occur till April 30,1975 with the capitulation of South Vietnam. Pres. Ford was the president.
That's the Vietnam War in a nutshell or synopsis. Pres Nixon was never impeached. Kennedy wasn't responsible he was always for peace keeping although this cold war has been going on. during his administration. I hope this info is useful and clears up muddled issues. The Vietnam War wasn't popular. and the Veterans were jeered because of it. Nobody really won. History has timeline and should be accurate.

Answer 3

Yes, you are right. Johnson increased the amount of troops and escalated U.S. involvement. Nixon campaigned that he had a secret plan to end the war. In the 1970s he began Vietnamization of the war, as it was called. The Paris Peace Talks concluded in 1973 and American troops were out. By April 1975, the Vietnamese communists had won the war.

Answer 4

In early January 1973, the Nixon White House convinced the Thieu-Ky regime in Saigon that they would not abandon South Vietnam if they signed onto the peace accord. Likewise, Hanoi convinced leaders of the NLF that all southern political prisoners would be released shortly after the peace accord was signed. On January 23, therefore, the final draft was initialed, ending open hostilities between the United States and the DRV. The The Paris Peace Agreement did not end the conflict in Vietnam, however, as the Thieu-Ky regime continued to battle Communist forces. From March 1973 until the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, ARVN forces tried desperately to save South Vietnam from political and military collapse. The end finally came, however, as DRV tanks rolled south along National Highway One. On the morning of April 30, Communist forces captured the presidential palace in Saigon, ending the Second Indochina War.

Answer 5

no.

Total U.S. Withdrawal

In December 1974, Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, which cut off all military funding to the South Vietnamese government and made unenforceable the peace terms negotiated by Nixon. Nixon, threatened with impeachment because of the Watergate scandal, had resigned his office. His vice president stepped in to finish his term. The new President Ford vetoed the legislation passed by Congress, but his veto was overridden.

By 1975, the South Vietnamese Army stood alone against the well-organized, highly determined, and foreign-funded North Vietnamese. In South Vietnam, there was increasing chaos. The withdrawal of the U.S. had compromised an economy that had thrived largely due to U.S. financial support and the presence of large numbers of U.S. troops. Along with the rest of the non-oil-exporting world, South Vietnam suffered economically from the oil price shocks caused by the Arab oil embargo and a subsequent global economic downturn.

Answer 6

Gerald Ford was the President when the war ended in 1975, however Congress essentially set us up for failure by cutting the funding for the war. Similar to what the Democrats are trying to do now with the war on terror. They basically pulled the rug out from under our troops.

Between that and John Kerry, and hippies that were using the war as an excuse to complain about something and get high, the US captured defeat from the jaws of victory.

Answer 7

Yes. Richard Milhouse Nixon, under a cloud of scandal, pulled the troops in '74. Then the government of South Vietnam fell withing a few months.

Answer 8

By the end of March 1973, all U.S. fighting forces had been withdrawn. Although President Nixon had apparently assured the Thieu government that U.S. forces would step in to support them in the event of a major treaty violation, further military assistance to South Vietnam became politically impossible. One of the reasons for this was the concurrent outbreak of the Watergate scandal.

Answer 9

The Vietnam war ended under the Nixon presidency, but America was at war longer under his presidency than under any other president. The problem was that the U.S. did not have a clear strategy to win, but to pull out would be to admit defeat. There is an obvious application to the currrent situation in Iraq. When you go to war, you need to have a plan to win it, and to get out.

Answer 10

Yes, Nixon pulled the troops out of vietnam. For extra credit, make a note that it was a (drunk) Kennedy who put the troops in vietnam in the first place.