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Four years, the North Vietnamese had been using the Cambodia as a sanctuary from which they directed the war in South Vietnam.
Present Nixon believed that by attacking and destroying those sanctuaries, he would help his program of Vietnamization and protect withdrawing American forces.
But President Nixon missed calculated. Rather than being viewed as a step toward ending the war, the Cambodian invasion was viewed by many Americans as a farther expansion of the war.
Demonstrations against the invasions of Cambodia were quite violent.
On May 4th during protest at Kent State University, Ohio, four student demonstrators were killed by National Guardsman. And at Jackson State College, Mississippi, 2 students were killed by police.
Congress reacted to the Cambodian invasion by repelling the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Thus, with protestors in the street and congress limiting his ability to conduct the war, President Nixon was force to quickly purtail the Cambodian operation.
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