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Nixon appealed to the “Silent Majority,” Americans who supported the war, but without noise.While outwardly seeming to appease, Nixon divided America into his supporters and opponents.would only supply arms and money but not American troops this was called the “Nixon Doctrine.” The South Vietnamese would slowly fight their own war, and the U.S.He was very skilled in foreign affairs, and to cope with the Vietnam dilemma, he used a policy called “Vietnamization” in which 540,000 American troops would be pulled out of the Southeast Asian nation and the war would be turned back over to the Vietamese.Upon taking office, President Richard Nixon urged American’s to stop tearing each other apart and to cooperate. had once dominated: steel, automobiles, consumer electronics. did not continue advancing, Americans were caught by the Japanese and the Germans in industries that the U.S. treasury, and this caused too much money in people’s hands and too little products to buy. Johnson’s spending on the Vietnam War and on his Great Society program also depleted the U.S. A large reason for the 1970s economic woes was the upward spiral of inflation.Part of the slowdown was caused by more women and teens in the work force who typically had less skill and made less money than males, while deteriorating machinery and U.S.No year during that decade had a growth rate that matched any year of the preceding two decades. After the flurry of economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S.
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