Word: cambodia
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...year of the Peace March in Washington, the Kent State and Jackson State murders, and the invasion of Cambodia...
This year was different. It was the year of Vietnamization. It was the year of Cambodia. It was the year of Kent State and Jackson State. It was the year that the war officially began to end, and the pain continued to mount...
Still, students could not help but be wary. The troop reduction was coupled with the first American bombings of Cambodia, a neutral country. Campus protests increased in the wake of continued American involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia...
...days later, Nixon--reportedly feeling energized after watching the movie Patton--decided to send troops into Cambodia to clear out Vietcong sanctuaries, Rather and Gates write...
...surprisingly, the Cambodia invasion triggered hundreds of protests, especially on college campuses. A telegram sent by college and university presidents around the country asked Nixon to "consider the incalculable dangers of an unprecedented alienation of America's youth," according to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education published at the time...