Promising an end to the war in Vietnam, Richard Nixon won a narrow victory in the election of 1968.On April 30th, 1970; President Nixon announced that American troops would be invading Cambodia to clean out North Vietnamese camps in the east region of the country. Nixon had the U.S. planes secretly bombing Cambodia for a year but now he believed that he had to invade to keep the U.S. troops leaving South Vietnam safe. ... not expressly forbid bombing, however, so Nixon continued the air strikes on Cambodia until 1973. Nixon's continued reliance on expanded air war to provide cover for ...

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Richard Nixon became president and announced a new policy, known as Vietnamization. ... When America felt as if their boys were coming home Nixon shocked everyone when he told the nation we were going to invade Cambodia to clear out the North Vietnamese military supply centers. ... In March 1972, North Vietnam started invading South Vietnam again and Nixon ordered a bombing raid on North Vietnam. ...

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The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. Also called the Indochina War, it was said to have been started in 1957 when communist rebels of North Vietnam launched an attack on The South. The country was divided because of the communistic views of the North. Because the North was...

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