US withdrawal

• what was US withdrawal from Vietnam?

  -Nixon working to bring all US soldiers home and end war
• when?

  -began working on process of withdrawal Jan 1939

  -last US soldiers left march 1973
• why did the US withdraw from vietnam

  - Low morale of US troops

  - Tet Offensive

  - My Lai

  - Lack of support from Media and Press

  - Anti war protests

  - Human and economic cost

  -US realised war was unwinnable
• what was Nixon's approach to US withdrawal?

  -Vietnamisation

  -improved relationship with USSR and China to persuade them to persuade north Vietnam to end war

  -use Henry Kissinger to try and negotiate end of war

  -Increased bombing of NV and expanded war to Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia and Laos
• when did peace talks begin?

  January 1969
• Who was the main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese?

  Henry Kissinger
• Who served as the secretary of state during Nixon's presidency in the 1970s?

  Henry Kissinger
• what did Nixon promise to SV once US had withdrawn?

  -to still supply with money and weapons so it wouldn't fall to communism
• what happened to SV after US withdrew?

  The money and weapons promised by Nixon did not materialise.

  In April 1975 the capital city of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to communism and was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
• what were the consequences of the US withdrawal from Vietnam?

  -end of war

  -after fall of Saigon in 1975 North and south became united communist nation