A game of basketball is made up of four quarters, each ten (or in the National Basketball Association 12,) minutes long. At the start of each quarter the team who has the possession arrow pointing towards their hoop gets the ball. Then the arrow is switched, and the next team gets the ball next quarter.
Ending the Vietnam War, 1969â1973. 1  President Richard M. Nixon assumed responsibility for the Vietnam War as he swore the oath of office on January 20, 1969. He knew that ending this war honorably was essential to his success in the presidency.
By 1969, at  the height of the war, the United States had about 543,000 troops  in Vietnam. Many of them were teenagers. The average age of  Americans fighting in Vietnam was 19.    END OF THE WAR Although Nixon increased the bombing of North  Vietnam, he began withdrawing U.S. troops. Without U.S. support,  South Vietnam's government collapsed. North Vietnam won the war in  1975. Vietnam was reunited as a Communist nation.