No one used to say, "Republic of South Vietnam", or "I'm going to South Vietnam", it was usually said as, "I'm going to Vietnam", hence the word Vietnam...when in reality we were headed for SOUTH Vietnam, Vietnam was two separate countries. North and South Vietnam were simply countries in the south eastern portion of Asia (on the continent of Eurasia). You certainly weren't going to NORTH Vietnam. Not unless you were either an aircrewman or pilot. Those men actually fought in the skies of NORTH Vietnam. Aerial dog-fights (air combat) over South Vietnam rarely if ever happened. Nearly, if not all, of our POWs were airmen shot down over NORTH Vietnam.
Proposed by President Nixon, Vietnamization was a plan designed to reduce American Presence in Vietnam by encouraging Southern Vietnamese to take on the responsibility of fighting the war.
Vietnamization=turning the war over to them
To honor and memorialize the lives of the nearly 60,000 Americans who died in the Vietnam War, and to those whose whereabouts are still unknown.
Vietnamization differs from the war policies of Nixon's predecessors in the sense that it reflected the Tet Defensive and the following ramifications.
What John Kerry thinks of the Vietnamization Policy is that he is completely for it. The Vietamization Policy is saying that he is againt the war in Iraq not necessarily the Vietnam War.
Certainly, it got the US out.
Vietnamization Bombing North Vietnam
The policy of Vietnamization was introduced by President Richard Nixon on November 3, 1969.
July 1969
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Vietnamization
Re-education, or brainwashing.
Re-education, or brainwashing.
Nixon Doctrine
To honor and memorialize the lives of the nearly 60,000 Americans who died in the Vietnam War, and to those whose whereabouts are still unknown.
Vietnamization differs from the war policies of Nixon's predecessors in the sense that it reflected the Tet Defensive and the following ramifications.
Vietnamization
Vietnamization