End of the Vietnam War Facts: Fast Fact Sheet
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When was the End of the Vietnam War? The End of the Vietnam War
officially ended on April 30, 1975 although
direct U.S. military involvement ended on 15
August 1973.
Who was president at the End of the Vietnam War?
Richard Nixon was the U.S. president at the
end of the Vietnam War.
What treaty was signed to End of the Vietnam War?
The Paris Peace Accords of January 27, 1973
were intended to establish peace in Vietnam.
It led to a Ceasefire agreement and the
withdrawal of U.S. troops in Vietnam. The End of the Vietnam War:
Terms of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords
The terms of the Paris Peace Accords of January 27, 1973 were as
follows: ● North Vietnamese, the
Vietcong, and South Vietnamese soldiers would stop fighting and
retain all territory occupied at the time of the cease-fire
● American troops would
leave South Vietnam
● It was agreed that North
Vietnamese troops could stay in South Vietnam
● American Prisoners of War
(POWs) would be returned when United States troops left Vietnam
● The government of South
Vietnam would allow a commission consisting of North and South
Vietnamese to prepare for a democratic election
● The newly elected
government would take over and run Vietnam
What caused the End of the Vietnam War?
There were many reasons for the End of the Vietnam War.
These included: ● The failure of the
high-tech war fought by the Americans against the guerilla
warfare waged by the communist North Vietnamese forces and the
Viet Cong in the impenetrable terrain of the jungles of Vietnam
● The anti-war movement,
protests and demonstrations which had rapidly increased in the
United States due to the number of deaths and injuries
● The unrelenting media
coverage of the Vietnam War, via the newspapers and television,
that horrified the American public
● The cover-up and attempted
whitewash of the
My Lai Massacre
● Intense opposition to the
draft, and the opposition of the Youth Movement with the Hippie
counterculture of love and peace
●
The
Tet Offensive in which the North
Vietnamese communists gained a psychological and political
victory and contradicted the optimistic claims made by the U.S.
government that the Vietnam War was all but over
● The protests against the
U.S. invasion of Cambodia and expansion of the Vietnam War
effort led to the Kent State
University Shooting by Ohio National Guardsmen
● The
Pentagon Papers leak revealing
that the US government had been dishonest and had used
"incredible deception" about the U.S. political and military
involvement in Vietnam
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The undeclared military action in Laos and Cambodia
which was taken without the support of Congress or the American
people
● Mounting skepticism about
the Vietnam War and the U.S. government in general, particularly
the "credibility gap" between what the government said and what
it actually did
● The failure of Nixon's
policy of Vietnamization
● By the end of 1971 opinion
polls showed that 66% of all Americans wanted the Vietnam War to
end as quickly as possible.
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End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 1: In 1969 President
Nixon abandoned the idea of a "purely military victory"
and authorized secret negotiations with the
communist North Vietnamese. He appointed Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr. as “Ambassador to head the United States
Delegation at the Paris Meetings on Vietnam
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 2: Nixon adopted the strategy of
'Vietnamization' to equip and train South Vietnamese forces so that
they could take over more military responsibilities against the
communists allowing the United States to disengage combat forces
without appearing to abandon South Vietnam.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 3: In June 1969, the first 25,000
U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and a further 60,000 troops
followed by the end of the year.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 4: In August 1969, Henry
Kissinger, the National Security Advisor, met secretly in Paris with
Le Duc Tho, his North Vietnamese counterpart, but little progress
was made.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 5: Nixon adopted a get-tough
policy to force an agreement on his terms and ordered negotiator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. to stage staging a walk-out on the peace
talks on October 23, 1969.
End of the Vietnam War
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6: On November 3,
1969, President Nixon announced the strategy of 'Vietnamization'
to the American people in a broadcast speech. His
plan was to end the Vietnam War with "the complete
withdrawal of all U.S. combat ground forces, and their
replacement by South Vietnamese forces on an orderly
scheduled timetable.”
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 7: News of the My Lai massacre broke in America on
November 12, 1969, to the horror of the nation.
End of the Vietnam War Facts - 8:
On December 8, 1969 Chief US
negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and his deputy resigned,
expressing pessimism concerning the negotiations with the North
Vietnamese and seeing no role remaining for a peace negotiator. The
only official, public negotiations to end the Vietnam War were over,
never to resume.
End of the Vietnam War Facts - 9:
Henry Kissinger met his
counterpart again in February 1970. The talks were so secret that
President Nixon's Secretary of State, William Rogers, did not even
know they were being held.
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End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 10: A Vietnam
Moratorium Day was organized to take place on October
15, 1969. An estimated one million Americans across the
US, including 50 members of Congress, participated in
the 'Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam' with anti-war
demonstrations, teach-ins, protest rallies and peace
vigils. In a peace rally across from the White
House the protestors were led by Pete Seeger singing a
rendition John Lennon's song "Give Peace A Chance"
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11: News of increased
US involvement in Laos and Cambodia surfaced in April
1970 when 1969 Senate transcripts were made public. On
May 2, 1970 - Senators McGovern, Goodell, Hughes,
Cranston, and Hatfield announced they planned to
introduce an "end the war" amendment to suspend funds
for military operations in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 12: News of the
invasion of Cambodia led to protests by enraged anti-war
demonstrators. On May 4, 1970, 4 student protestors were
shot dead and 9 other students were wounded during the
Kent State
University Shooting by Ohio National Guardsmen
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13: The secret Paris Peace Talks remained
at stalemate throughout this period.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 14: On April 18, 1971 - 2,300
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) camped near the Capitol, and
threw away their military medals and ribbons in protest against the
continuance of the war.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 15: It wasn't until
January 25, 1972 that President Nixon announced that
Henry Kissinger had been secretly negotiating with the
communist North Vietnamese aimed at achieving "peace
with honor" in the Vietnam War.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 16: The North Vietnamese launched a major offensive
and in retaliation, and on 30 March 30, 1972 Nixon ordered the
bombing of the Hanoi and Haiphong areas.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 17: The Paris Peace talks resumed on April 27, 1972,
but still no settlement was reached
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 18: The situation
changed in October 1972 when North Vietnam proposed an
‘in place’ cease fire, allowing North Vietnamese troops
to remain in South Vietnam dropping their insistence
that the South Vietnamese government be disbanded..
End of the Vietnam War Facts - 19:
During the period
of the ceasefire it was agreed that the South and the
North Vietnamese would arrange for a new government to
supervise free elections which would determine the
future of South Vietnam.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 20: The presidential
elections were only a few weeks away and Nixon agreed to
back the ceasefire "to end the war and bring peace with
honor in Vietnam and S.E. Asia."
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 21:
The Paris Peace Accords of January 27, 1973
were intended to establish peace in Vietnam and led to a
Ceasefire agreement and the withdrawal of U.S. troops in
Vietnam.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts - 22: Direct U.S. military involvement
ended on 15 August 1973.
End of the Vietnam War
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23: No sooner had the
American troops
withdrawn, the ceasefire agreement collapsed and the North
Vietnamese Army launched a full scale invasion of the south.
End of the Vietnam War
Facts -
24: Saigon was
captured on April 30, 1975 and renamed as Ho Chi Minh city.
President Nguyen Van Theu's South Vietnamese government surrendered
to the Communists, marking the end of the Vietnam War.
End of the Vietnam War
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25: In May 1975 the
Battle on Koh Tang in Cambodia was officially the last
American battle of the Vietnam War. It was the only time
Americans battled against the
Khmer Rouge.
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