USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to “expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".

Detailed explanation-2: -In the meantime, President Nixon began cutting back on the num-ber of troops in Vietnam. He set up a plan called Vietnamization. It called for a gradual withdrawal of American troops and for the South Vietnamese army to take over more of the fighting.

Detailed explanation-3: -The administration introduced the policy of “Vietnamization, ” a program designed to shift the responsibility of the war from the U.S. to the South Vietnamese, allowing the United States to gradually withdraw its troops from Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-4: -January 27, 1973: President Nixon signs the Paris Peace Accords, ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese accept a cease fire.

Detailed explanation-5: -Vietnamization ultimately failed because, after the removal US troops, North Vietnamese forces moved into South Vietnam, took over more cities, and ended the war at Saigon in 1973.