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Predict how Nixon’s ideas about the Vietnam war effect the war going forward? (think about how we answered the question about a new president coming in)

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The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there is not a specific attach or context to this question, we can say that Nixon’s ideas about the Vietnam war affected the war going forward in the following way.

After many years of conflict and the presence of the United States troop in Vietnam, American people started to protest and question the participation of the US in the Vietnam War. People did not accept the idea of young Americans dying in a war that doesn't belong to them.

So President Nixon started what was known as the "Vietnamization." This was the foreign policy for the Nixon administration regarding the presence and support of the US in South Vietnam. This policy implied the gradual reduction of the US troops in the war, while the US military would still helping South Vietnam with training, weaponry, and supplies. The Nixon administration considered that South Vietnam had to assume that the war was theirs to fight.

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