April+30,+1970+Invasion

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On April 30, 1970 Richard Nixon announced on national T.V. that American troops were invading cambodia. There were bomb raids going on for the past year on the border of Cambodia near south Vietnam. The reason for doing this was to defeat 40,000 Vietnamese soldiers who were in the eastern reagions of Cambodia. Not everyone agreed with the invasion, secretary of defense Melvin R. Laird and secretary rogers both disagreed with the invasion because it would ruin there peace negoations in paris.

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