HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pentagon, Phoenix Program, Fragging
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(cid:858)68 war exhaustion had begun to set in the viet congs tet offensive took americans by surprise and became a turning point in the decline in popular confidence in the war effort in vietnam. Nixon cut his sentence short after just 3 years and put calley on house arrest. The phoenix program: torture of civilians/vc to shock them into submission of any info they had on vc or if they were. Vc themselves: they used the most insane forms of torture, the (cid:449)orr(cid:455) after this (cid:449)as e(cid:448)e(cid:374) if (cid:455)ou (cid:449)ere(cid:374)(cid:859)t a vc supporter duri(cid:374)g the torture, (cid:455)ou(cid:859)d (cid:271)e o(cid:374)e after it. If you had money, you could get a doctor to write up something false to get you out of the draft. Fragging: shooting of new lieutenants who came in to platoons (roughly a week before you were supposed to go home)
