... troops on the battlefield of South Vietnam with huge amounts of war expenses, Washington D.C. incessantly acclaimed for a liberal democracy in this small Asian country. However, that illusion was quickly shattered by hard facts: slaughters, piled-up bodies, villages being destroyed, farms being burned by bombs. US ... cut off supply routes from North to South Vietnam through Cambodia. The announcement on April 30, 1970, of President Richard Nixon that US troops would cross the Vietnam border into Cambodia was the straw that broke the camel's back, ignited a wave of protest by students. 1...

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... aggressive behavior, which is what the public wanted to see. Another smart move he made was to choose his chief rival for the Republican nomination, George Bush, Sr. as his running mate (Schaller, 448). Americans may have reconsidered his election after his first few months in office, due to the lack of change from past presidents. As Crockatt states, "For several ... strongly advocated the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, that was designed to provide a missile defense from an attack- (Multied). He wanted backup in case the Soviets tried to double-cross us. SDI was a goo...

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