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Henry Kissinger is appointed to use diplomacy to end the war. He was secretly negotiating with Le Duc Tho.
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Nixon started pulling troops out of Vietnam, and replacing them with South Vietnamese fighters.
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Nixon is elected as the Republican candidate. -
Nixon announced that US troops invaded Cambodia to destroy Vietcong bases. This set off protests on college campuses.
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More people were seeing the war and how horrible it was on TV, wanted the war to end.
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Nixon wanted to force the other side to continue negotiations.
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The sides signed an agreement to end the war.
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The war offically ends
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The memorial contained the names of soldiers killed or missing in action in the war.