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13.1 Nixon’s America
The conservative consensus that supported Falwell’s Moral Majority was not yet in place when Richard Nixon assumed the presidency in 1969. He campaigned against Johnson’s Great Society and the millions of dollars funneled into government programs. Although many Americans were disillusioned with the Vietnam War and concerned with urban unrest and the growing rights demands of various groups in society, Nixon won by a very small margin.
Once in office, Nixon departed from his campaign rhetoric and advanced the liberal causes of his predecessor in important ways. Many of Nixon’s programs and actions angered conservatives in his own Republican Party. However, the Vietnam War was the most pressing concern he faced upon assuming office.
Nixon and Vietnam
Nixon pursued a peace settlement already begun during Johnson’s administration. American and North Vietnamese leaders met in Paris to discuss the possibility of ending the hostilities. Though the diplomatic talks had no direct impact on the war, they helped boost Nixon’s popularity at home.
Nixon further increased his public approval with his policy of Vietnamization. This meant that the United States sought to limit its fighting on the ground by training South Vietnamese forces to wage their own war. The president had inherited a difficult situation, and he determined early in 1969 that there was little possibility of victory. He devised the Vietnamization strategy to ease the U.S. involvement before the almost inevitable collapse of South Vietnam. Nixon announced this policy directly to the American people in a televised address on November 3, 1969, saying:
Good evening, my fellow Americans. Tonight I want to talk to you on a subject of deep concern to all Americans and to many people in all parts of the world—the war in Vietnam. I believe that one of the reasons for the deep division about Vietnam is that many Americans have lost confidence in what their Government has told them about our policy. (as cited in Vilade, 2012, p. 196)
At that point 31,000 Americans had died in the war, and Nixon told the American people that there were just two courses of action. The first was immediate withdrawal. The second was to persist in “our search for peace” and “continued implementation of our plan for Vietnamization.” Nixon concluded by saying, “I have chosen this second course. It is not the easy way. It is the right way” (as cited in Gettleman, 1995, p. 444).
Cambodia and Its Consequences
Vietnamization did little to ease the conflict or the antiwar protests in the United States. In 1970 Nixon ordered troops into Cambodia, a neutral nation on the border of Vietnam. Aiming to cut off supplies to the North, the movement instead destabilized the Cambodian government and began a chain of events that saw the rise of the Communist Khmer Rouge party. During its reign, which lasted until 1979, Cambodians were indiscriminately killed and forced into rural communes.
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What was the causes of the Vietnam war?
What was the causes of the Vietnam war?
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The causes of the Vietnam War were derived from the symptoms, components and consequences
of the Cold War. The causes of the Vietnam War revolve around the simple belief held by
America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia
The US entered the conflict in South Vietnam based on the much maligned \"Domino Theory\"
concept. From the perspective of the Nation\'s leader, this was a very real threat both in terms of
nation\'s falling one by one to communism and with regards to the resultant impacts.
The most significant driver for US involvement in South Vietnam was the Korean War. It
established the notion of a \"civil war\" in which the northern communists were extensively
supported by outside forces and that a conventional invasion was the greatest threat.
On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. The US and its allies spent three years
fighting a very brutal war against the North Koreans, the Chinese and the Soviets. Eventually, it
ended in a stalemate. By definition, on June 25, 1950, this was a civil war.However, by the time
the US entered the Vietnam conflict, there was ample near term historical precedence for the
spread of communism.
In 1954, Vietnamese communist forces defeat the French which leads to the 1954 Geneva
convention in which the region was divided into North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
In 1959, the government of Laos collapses and the Pathet Lao (communist forces backed by the
North Vietnamese) begin to fight for control of the country. A civil war backed by external
communist forces.
It was evident to the US and its allies that communism was spreading throughout the region.
Each state which fell served as a launch point for communist operations in nearby countries
(China into Korea and Vietnam, China and North Vietnam into Laos and Cambodia). Therefore
to prevent further spread to allies to include Thailand and Japan among others, communism had
to be contained.
Based on the results of communist rule in the countries that fell, it seems the concerns were
genuine. South Vietnam asked for help from its SEATO allies and the US responded as it should
under treaty obligation.
The argument that this was civil war substantially underplays the assistance the North
Vietnamese received from the Chinese and Soviets. It was as much a civil war as the Korean
War was.
Some 1.5 million Chinese were executed during the land reforms and counter-revolutionary
executions following the Chinese victory in 1948. In the early 1960s, following the Great Leap
Forward, approximately 2.5 million people were executed, Up to 1 million people were executed
or died in concentration camps in North Korea by the start of the US involvement in Vietnam.
Between 1953 and 1956, the Land reform in North Vietnam carried out by the Communists
resulted in the deaths, by various estimates, of almost 200,ooo landowners via public kanga.
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
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3. While both Japan and China were allied with the
Entente powers during the course of the First
World War, the Western victory contrasted in its
effects in each of the Asian countries. As the
Japanese used the war as an excuse to gain
control of German concessionary areas in China,
control of these parts by the Japanese
government was solidified in the Treaty of
Versailles. This angered many of the Chinese
nationalist politicians and sparked a series of
protests against the betrayal by Entente powers
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4. After Sun Yat-sen’s death, the position at the head of
the Nationalist Party was passed over to Chiang Kai-
shek, a former attendee of the Whampoa Military
Academy. Allied with dominating warlords
throughout the region, Chiang formed an army that
helped the Nationalists gain control of territory
throughout China, such as the Yangtze River valley
and Shanghai. This occupation of Shanghai also
corresponded with the ruthless tactics imposed on
the working class, murdering thousands of
communist supporters on the streets and setting the
stage for the civil war that was to take place between
the two political parties {political/social}.
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5. Japan’s struggle to compete with the world’s
superpowers led to the decision to invade
neighboring Manchuria. As the invading power began
pushing towards the Chinese mainland, putting
pressure on the Nationalist Party of China, the
Nationalist preoccupation with suppressing the
communist party had to be put on hold in order to
focus on the more immediate threat. After a forced
signing of a treaty between the two parties, the
Communists opened the door to a new opportunity in
gaining an advantage over the Nationalists. This led
to the ultimate Communist victory in 1949 followed
by the establishment of the People’s Republic of
China {political}.
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6. After the early establishment of a communist
headquarters in Hunan, Chiang launched a series
of attacks towards the area in order to rid the
opposing party of their rising influence in China.
In order to escape the dangerous raids, Mao and
his 90,000 followers made the Long March to the
Chinese city of Shaanxi, losing over half of the
initial travelers during the journey across
thousands of miles of difficult terrain. The party
was able to reestablish its capital which later
gave the communists advantage during the
Japanese invasion in terms of location, putting
their guerrilla forces in the direct path of
oncoming attacks {political}.
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7. As the Communist Party slowly began gaining
control of the country, the government
leaders prioritized the need to reestablish
China’s influence in East Asia. This led to
Chinese intervention in the Korean conflict,
competing against the United States’ support
in the south and resulting in permanent
partition of the neighboring Korean nation
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8. By the 1950s, the alliance between China and
Soviet Russia began to dwindle as a rise in
border disputes and China’s refusal to remain
inferior to the northern superpower created
heavy tensions between the former
collaborators. Stalin’s death in 1953 and the
rise of Khrushchev to power worked to
further extend the failure of the relationship.
Mao Zedong was left to believe that he
himself was now “the chief theoretician and
leader of the communist world” {cultural}.
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9. After initial French support of the rising Nguyen
dynasty, the reign of leaders such as Minh Mang
led to French distrust of the developing super-
Confucian society which contradicted the
European desire to push Catholicism into the
country. Using military defeats at home and
increased quarrels between Nguyen rulers as
motive, France launched an objective to gain
control of Vietnam and neighboring Laos and
Cambodia. The colonizers used their newly-
conquered areas as sources of financial revenue
which in turn worsened the already-difficult
economic status of the Vietnamese people
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10. With the establishment of the Viet Minh forces
during World War II, the nationalist resistance
managed to gain influence in the war for
independence. Led by General Vo Nguyen Giap,
the Viet Minh used guerrilla tactics to offset the
French colonizers and gain support throughout
the rural north. After gaining control of the
northern city of Hanoi in 1945, the communist
leader Ho Chi Minh declared the independent
nation of Vietnam but still lacked the control of
southern regions desired by dominating
nationalist forces {political}.
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11. To match the Viet Minh’s successes in the
north, as well as looking for ways to regain
strength as a result of Nazi domination, the
French reinforced their title as an imperialist
power by reoccupying Saigon with British
support. This was followed by France’s desire
to reassert control over the entire nation by
launching a war against the resisting forces in
the north, breaking a previous truce with the
Viet Minh {political}.
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12. The critical battle at Dien Bien Phu arose as the
main conflict which allowed full decolonization
and withdrawal of French forces from Vietnam to
take place. The battle pitted the French against
the highly effective guerrilla tactics used by the
Viet Minh. After surrounding the enemy at their
base in Dien Bien Phu, the Vietnamese forces
used complex tunnel systems to transport
weapons and supplies, pushing the enemy
towards the center which eventually forced the
French to surrender {political/human-
environmental}.
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13. After suffering heavy losses at Dien Bien Phu, the
French were forced to comply with the decisions
made during the Geneva Conference held in
Switzerland. The treaty declared Vietnam
independent from foreign powers and started the
withdrawal of French forces from the nation. In
settling political disputes, the agreement promised
national elections to take place in two years time
under which the communist-dominated north and the
politically-fragmented south would reunite under one
ruler. After the elections failed to take place, Ho Chi
Minh’s army named the Viet Cong launched an attack
on its southern counterparts in an attempt to unite
the nation under a single communist regime
{political}.
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14. As the Cold War sparked U.S. competition against
the Russian superpower and promoted anti-
communist propaganda to rise among the
American population, the U.S. government sent
in its first troops to South Vietnam in the 1950s
to protect the nation from further communist
influence. Throughout decades of bombings and
herbicide usage which destroyed the local
environment, the U.S. style of fighting failed to
gain victory over the guerrilla-based Viet Cong,
leading to withdrawal of American forces after a
series of treaty organizations established
communist rule throughout {political/human-
environmental}.
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