{"id":89472,"date":"2024-09-10T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=89472"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:59:10","slug":"why-the-us-left-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/10\/why-the-us-left-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the US Left Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jOb8BGXGP5I?si=j6Ja5dOCgmS-L0fx\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Time History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Apr 19, 2024<\/p>\n<p>With violent anti-war protests at home and discipline problems on US bases, President Nixon promises to withdraw American troops from the Vietnam War, but that doesn&#8217;t mean an end to the fighting. As US troop numbers drop, the war expands across borders and in the air as more weapons are pumped into the South.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT US<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nDavid Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\nAmter, Joseph A. &#8220;America Negotiates a Meaningless Peace&#8221; in Yancy, Diane (ed.), <em>The Vietnam War<\/em>, (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press Inc. 2001)<br \/>\nAnderson, David L. <em>The Vietnam War<\/em>, (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005)<br \/>\nAppy, Christian G. <em>Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam<\/em>, (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993)<br \/>\nAppy, Christian G. <em>Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides<\/em>, (New York, NY: Viking, 2003)<br \/>\nAppy, Christian, <em>Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History, Told From All Sides<\/em>, (London: Ebury Press, 2006)<br \/>\nBlasiot, Leonard A., Dawson, David A., Shulimson, Jack &#038; Smith, Charles R., <em>U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Defining Year 1968<\/em>, (Washington DC: History and Museums Division HQ, US Marine Corps, 1997)<br \/>\nBluhm Jr. Raymond K. 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Sharpe, 2008)<br \/>\nMo\u00efse, Edwin E. <em>Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War<\/em>, (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2019)<br \/>\nRotter, Andrew J. &#8220;Chronicle of a War Foretold: The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1954&#8221; in Lawrence, Mark Atwood &#038; Logevall, Fredrik (eds), <em>The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis<\/em>, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007)<br \/>\nRuane, Kevin (ed.), <em>The Vietnam Wars<\/em>, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)<br \/>\nSchulzinger, Robert D. &#8220;Antiwar Protests Rock America&#8221; in Yancy, Diane (ed.), <em>The Vietnam War<\/em>, (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press Inc. 2001)<br \/>\nThee, Marek, &#8220;The Indochina Wars: Great Power Involvement &#8211; Escalation and Disengagement&#8221;, <em>Journal of Peace Research<\/em>, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1976)<br \/>\nTiu Bin, <em>Following Ho Chi Minh: Memoir of a North Vietnamese Colonel<\/em>, (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2003)<br \/>\nTovy, Tal, <em>The Gulf of Tonkin: The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War<\/em>, (New York, NY: Routledge, 2021)<br \/>\nYancy, Diane (ed.), <em>The Vietnam War<\/em>, (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press Inc. 2001)<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Mark Newton<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller<br \/>\nEditing: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMotion Design: Toni Steller, Philipp Appelt<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nResearch by: Mark Newton<br \/>\nFact checking: Florian Wittig, Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Florian Wittig<\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster<\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters<br \/>\nMaps: MapTiler\/OpenStreetMap Contributors &#038; GEOlayers3<br \/>\nMusic Library: Epidemic Sound<br \/>\nAll rights reserved &#8211; Real Time History GmbH 2024<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Time History Published Apr 19, 2024 With violent anti-war protests at home and discipline problems on US bases, President Nixon promises to withdraw American troops from the Vietnam War, but that doesn&#8217;t mean an end to the fighting. 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