Week of 10/27

Discuss each of the options regarding the Vietnam conflict available to Nixon when he took office in 1969 including the problems each entailed.

Why does Ambrose conclude that Nixon's policy of Vietnamization was a "disastrous choice?"

Explain Kissinger's policy of "linkage" and why it was a failure.

Discuss the successes and failures of Nixon's tactics to create an opportunity to withdraw from Vietnam.

Explain the issues that prolonged the negotiations and delayed the US exit from Vietnam. How was the deadlock broken?

Explain the "legacies" of Vietnam for both the US and the world. How was the Domino Theory proven wrong by events in Southeast Asia?