People in the United States who wanted to withdraw from Vietnam were generally known as "doves". They called their opponents "hawks".
Some veterans and hippies :P
Get our POWs back and leave.
The US wanted N. Vietnam to stop fighting in S. Vietnam.
The US involved Vietnam War was NOT about imperialism. Imperialism means the acquiring of an empire...such as colonies. The US wanted to keep any nation free from "communism." South Vietnam was one of those countries.
The US Army, US Air Force definitely did NOT want to fight in Vietnam. Those two branches were geared for European Warfare NOT Asian! The US Navy & US Marines were not strangers to Southeast Asia; it didn't bother them too much.
The US began reducing Vietnam troop strength in late 1971, and all U.S. troops were out of Vietnam by April 25, 1973. When Saigon fell to North Vietnam communist soldiers in 1975, America had been out of the war for two years.
1970s
Get our POWs back and leave.
The US wanted N. Vietnam to stop fighting in S. Vietnam.
The US involved Vietnam War was NOT about imperialism. Imperialism means the acquiring of an empire...such as colonies. The US wanted to keep any nation free from "communism." South Vietnam was one of those countries.
The north wanted the US out, the south wanted the US to stay.
The results of Vietnam war were that the North Vietnamese claimed they were victorious. The US had to withdraw and let communist governments take over.
They wanted to 'contain' communism to stop it spreading. They believed in the domino theory, that if Vietnam fell to communism, then so would the whole of Southeast Asia. The presidents who were involved in Vietnam were all concerned with looking tough against communism, and wanted America to appear like a strong nation. The 'quagmire theory' helps explain why successive presidents became increasingly involved; this is the belief that the US got slowly stuck in Vietnam, and it became harder and harder to withdraw commitment.
The US Army, US Air Force definitely did NOT want to fight in Vietnam. Those two branches were geared for European Warfare NOT Asian! The US Navy & US Marines were not strangers to Southeast Asia; it didn't bother them too much.
The US began reducing Vietnam troop strength in late 1971, and all U.S. troops were out of Vietnam by April 25, 1973. When Saigon fell to North Vietnam communist soldiers in 1975, America had been out of the war for two years.
In many sources, it is just called " Nixon's Secret Plan to End the Vietnam War". A more formal name was Vietnamization. Nixon wanted to transfer all military responsibilities to South Vietnam so the US could withdraw its troops.
Americans wanted to withdraw into an isolationist position.
The U.S.A got involved in the Vietnam conflict because General Eisenhower wanted to stop the spread of communism.He also wanted to seize the monopoly on the Rise production coming out of Vietnam.