1971 – 26 th amendment. nixon’s re-election 1972 george mcgovern and george wallace run for the...
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1971 – 26th Amendment
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Nixon’s Re-election 1972
• George McGovern and George Wallace run for the Democrats
• Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer in Maryland (for fame) and paralyzed
• Nixon’s Secretary of State Kissinger announces “Peace is at Hand”
• Nixon wins by a landslide
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Wallace is shot in Maryland
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Work towards a cease-fire 1972
• Kissinger negotiates with N. Vietnam and reaches an agreement.
• S. Vietnam’s president doesn’t agree so the deal falls through
• Nixon begins bombing N. Vietnam for 2 weeks. Known as the Christmas Bombing.
• In 1973 a new deal is reached.
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The war ends 1973 peace agreement.• January 271973, a cease fire is reached.• U.S. pledges to withdraw and help rebuild Vietnam.• Also includes a prisoner exchange.• U.S. leaves and South Vietnam is still non-
communist.• In 1975 the North invades again and captures all of
South Vietnam. The U.S. watches but doesn’t get involved.
• Domino Theory proves false, no other countries become communist in SE Asia
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• What effect did the war have on the South Vietnamese people?
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• What effect did the war have on Vietnam Veterans?
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• How did the war effect American’s view of their government?
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As the North closed in around Saigon in 1975 thousands of Americans had to be evacuated from the U.S. Embassy. We had
to keep the South Vietnamese out also
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Virtual Rubbing
• The wall now has 58,253 names inscribed on it (8 women)…the number is still growing.
• The wall is visited by over 3 million people each year.
• The wall is reflective for a reason…why?• Wall starts out at 8 inches and reaches 10
feet at the middle. It points towards the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
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Maya Lin
• 21 year old student at Yale when she designed it.
• When asked to participate in the design contest she thought that a memorial already existed and knew very little about the wall.
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Three Soldiers Statue
• The three men stand looking at the wall
• There is one hispanic man, one black, and one white.
• This statue was erected after the wall to appease people unhappy with Lin’s design.
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Vietnam Women’s Memorial. Located a
short distance from the
wall.
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The Wall in Altoona
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