"And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support… North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that." — Richard Nixon, Address on Vietnam, November 3, 1969
The administration's later 1970 expansion of the war into Cambodia triggered which response?
- Acheck_circle
Massive campus protests including the Kent State shootings, where Ohio National Guardsmen killed four students
- B
A Soviet declaration of war on the United States
- C
Immediate impeachment proceedings against Nixon
- D
Repeal of the Selective Service Act
Explanation
The April 1970 announcement of the Cambodian incursion sparked nationwide campus strikes; on May 4, Ohio National Guard troops shot and killed four students at Kent State, intensifying antiwar sentiment.