Notes on: Johnson, Nixon, Detente and Vietnam

Today in class we took Notes on Johnson, Nixon, Detente and Vietnam, below are some interesting and important notes that I took:

• Continued policies largely consistent with other presidents (Containment, Truman Doctrine, Domino Theory, Regional Defense Pacts)
• Fear of “Soft on Communism”
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on 1964
• "Rolling Thunder”
• Escalation
• Pacification: “Search and Destroy”
• Attrition: Body Counts: Favorable Kill Ratios
• “Winning Hearts and Minds” Relocation Strategy
• Limited War: Attrition

Vietnam and Nixon:

• "Peace with Honor"
• Vietnamization and with drawl of major US combat forces
• Cambodia and Laos in 1970
• Mining of Haiphong Harbor
• Intensified bombing campaign such as Christmas Bombing 1972
• Paris Accords (January 1973)

Vietnam Legacy:

• War between Vietnam and Cambodia  broke out in 1978, border skirmishes with China in 1978 through 1970
• US cost of deaths: 58,000
• KIA: 300,000 wounded
• With 150 billion in dollars

Detente:

• Nixon and China ping pong to Mao
• SALT was on 1972
• Wars by Proxy
• The Middle East: Six Day War and the Yom Kipper War