- Far East
is the correct answer. They were looking for a quicker way to access India.
Use of ground troops: Americanization used US ground troops to fight the war whereas Vietnamization used S.Vietnamese ground troops to fight the war.
Johnson moved the US from an aid and financial backer to a ground force with men in active duty on the front lines in addition to naval and air support. Nixon's policy removed the ground troops, leaving the S. Vietnamese to fight that on their own (with our aid and money) but continued our air strikes and naval support.
The answer to this question would be “Beringia”.
Today, Beringia<span> is the land and marine area bordered on the west
by the Lena River; on the east by the Mackenzie River; on the north by 72
degrees north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the
Kamchatka Peninsula.</span>