THE 1970S 1969 1979
FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON
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The South Vietnamese won thanks to Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia
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The country remained divided at the 17th parallel and still remains divided today
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The North Vietnamese won and made the entire country communist
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The U.S. re-entered the war and helped the South Vietnamese defeat the north
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Detailed explanation-1: -In April 1975-two years after American troops left Vietnam-North Vietnamese forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon to win the Vietnam War. North Vietnamese political leaders immediately began making plans to reunite the two halves of the country.
Detailed explanation-2: -Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.
Detailed explanation-3: -The remaining Americans escaped in a series of frantic air-and sealifts with Vietnamese friends and coworkers. A military government was instituted, and on July 2, 1976, the country was officially united as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with its capital in Hanoi. Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
Detailed explanation-4: -The January accords, titled the “Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, ” neither ended the war (except for the United States) nor restored the peace. A little over 2 years later, 30 North Vietnamese divisions conquered the South and restored peace in Vietnam.