Vietnam to Watergate

Viridiana Diaz

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Imperialism A. Causes 2.

• Containment The longest and most costly war in American history; Vietnam stemmed out of the Cold War and ‘Containment Philosophy.

B. Support ebbs

C. LBJ’s conundrum

D. 1968 O Republicans won the popular vote by small margin, Democrats lost in most of the northern states that had voted democratic since FDR.

E. Fall of Saigon O O In April 1975 North Vietnamese took over Saigon, and the Communist led Democratic Republic of Vietnam soon united the nation.

The war was over; it cost the United States 58,000 lives and $150 billion.

F. Nixon O O Vietnamization; the withdrawal of US troops as fast as possible without undermining the South Vietnamese government. Watergate; complex scandal involving attempts to cover up illegal actions taken by administration officials and leading to the resignation of Nixon in 1974.