Salma HamedShouq Al Darei

Shamma Al Dhaheri

What were the factors that

influenced the outcomes of the

1968 presidential

election?

•Raised taxes.•Increase in draft rolls.•Increase in calling up reserves.•Increase in wounds or deaths in the field.•Dissent at home.

Increase in troops caused:

Clifford concluded that the president should

radically shift U.S policy from one that pursued

victory to one that pursued a negotiated

peace.

People chose Nixon.Nixon promised that if

he was elected he would deliver “peace

with honor”.

A 1971 public-opinion poll, revealed that two thirds of

americans favored withdrawing american

troops, even if it ment a communist takeover of

south vietnam.Congress pressed Nixon to

bring the troops home.

The war finally ends, American troops finally

leave Vietnam.The failing of

Vietnamization and growing dissent at home forced president Nixon to search for some final way

out of the conflict.