MCH-Tim Crain Series-The U.S and the 1960s-Richard Nixon

Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 election and became the new President of the United States. However, he did not have a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam. In fact, he escalated the war by launching a secret bombing campaign of Cambodia. When the American public found out regarding the bombing of Cambodia, campuses across the nation erupted in antiwar protests. Nixon realized he had no choice but to begin the withdrawal of American forces from Southeast Asia. The cynicism of the 1960s would grow in the early 1970s with the fall of Vietnam and the domestic scandal of Watergate.