Causes Of The 1970's Bombing Campaign

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troops were joining the anti-war effort. Squads were murdering their commanders and abandoning their posts (Hoge). Draft deferments back home created an easy out for the wealthy but the resentment from the lower classes grew. Protests and riots broke out. At the Kent State riot, college kids were shot while demonstrating on campus (Hixson). Richard Nixon ignored the unrest and continued his movement in Asia. Taking a stance of gradual withdrawal, he began Vietnamization (Holsti and Rosenau). But not without invading Cambodia first. The bombing campaign was an ultimate failure and led to the full removal of the US from Vietnam (Bacevich).
The 1970’s saw three presidents; Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Nixon sacrificed the support