War In Vietnam

             By 1968, things had gone from bad to worse for the Johnson administration. In late January, the North Vietnamese launched coordinated attacks against the major southern cities. These attacks were known as the Tet Offensive and were designed to "break the aggressive will" of the Johnson administration and force Washington to the bargaining table. The Communist Party believed that the American people were growing war-weary and that they could humiliate Johnson and force the United States to hand over south Vietnam. Communist forces suffered tremendous casualties in the South. Furthermore, several leading southern Generals thought the plans for the Tet Offensive were too risky and this created a strain in relations between northern and southern Communists. In any event, in late March 1968, a disgraced Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek the Democratic Party's re-nomination for president and hinted that he would go to the bargaining table with the Communists to end th!.
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             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. Since Cambodia was a neutral country, many people in America protested the invasion. On May 2nd, 1970, the R.O.C.T building at Kent State University in Ohio was set on fire. 750 Ohio Guardsmen were sent to stop the protest and many students begin throwing rocks and taunting the guards. As the guards retreated, some begin firing at the protestors and were not given orders to fire at all. 4 people were killed and 9 were injured. Congress also passed the Cooper-Church Amendment, which specifically forbade the use of U.