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Article: Cold War: The Vietnam War Ends
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- American Decades
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COLD WAR: THE VIETNAM WAR ENDS
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Although by fall 1971 public protests against the Vietnam War waned, institutional opposition to the war
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especially to Nixon's war program
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increased. Congress moved toward ending the war by cutting off financial and military support. In September the White House barely defeated a bill to end the draft and thereby end the war. Various proposals seeking to cut
off military appropriations for Vietnam were tabled. With the 1972 presidential election on the horizon, Nixon feared that prolonging the war might jeopardize his reelection. He was just as afraid that losing South Vietnam to the Communists would also compromise his ...
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