withdrawal from vietnam

• What were Nixons strategies for withdrawing?

  > vietnamization

  > pressured china + USSR to force n.v into making a deal

  > Henry Kissinger negotiated a ceasefire with n.v

  >bombed Laos + Cambodia to try force communists to look for peace
• Henry Kissinger


  >The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese

  >secretary of state during Nixon's presidency
• What did Kissinger believe in?

  Realpolitik - common sense and practicality when dealing with foreign relations
• When did Saigon fall?

  April 1975
• How did the us embassy evacuate Saigon?

  5000 were airlifted out
• What was Saigon renamed?

  Ho Chi Minh City
• When did peace talks begin?

  January 1969
• When were the first US troops with drawn?

  25000 in June 1969 - 60,000 more by end of year
• When did secret peace talks between North Vietnam and the US take place?

  September 1969
• What were the aims of secret place talks

  To achieve peace with honour
• When does Nixon visit china?

  February 1972
• What happens in march 1972?

  >north Vietnam attacks south Vietnam

  >us retaliates and bombs Hanoi and haiphong
• When does Nixon visit the ussr?

  May 1972
• What is the proposed 'in place ceasefire' (oct 1972)

  North Vietnam agrees to stop fighting if;

  >their troops can occupy anywhere in south vietnam

  >south and north Vietnam will hold free elections

  >nixon supports the ceasefire and gives $1 billion of military aid to south Vietnam
• When is the Paris Peace Accord signed?

  27 January 1973
• When do the last US forces leave Vietnam?

  March 1973
• When does north Vietnam attack south again?

  December 1974- by april 1975 Saigon is occupied and Vietnam is a unified communist country
• 3 reasons the us approach failed

  >public didn't support the brutal diem regime

  >discipline and morale was low

  >soldiers didn't have enough experience- 900 died on their first day
• 3 reasons the Vietcong approach was successful

  >vietcong were supplied by peasant villages

  >vietcong fought with brutal determination to protect their land

  >experienced and knew the territory after fighting Japanese in ww2