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![]() Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Image: 80-G-K-42763: Operation Coronado IX, Mekong Delta, Vietnam, December 1967. South Vietnam did not long survive, falling in 1975 to the invading regular North Vietnamese Army. forces to withdraw, leaving the war solely to the Vietnamese. The 1973 peace accord required the last U.S. The war was widely seen as futile by 1968, when peace talks opened in Paris. Growing numbers of Americans opposed the war on political, or moral grounds, and public protest mounted. ![]() American strength peaked at 540,000 in 1969, then rapidly declined. When advice failed to stem the Communist tide, the United States in 1965 launched an air war against North Vietnam and committed ground troops to combat guerilla insurgency in the south. French defeat resulted in a divided country, with the United States supporting the weak but pro-Western government of South Vietnam.Īssuming a more active role in 1961, the United States sent the first of 11,000 military advisors to South Vietnam. ![]() backing to the French effort during the 1980s. From 1954 to 1975 Vietnam was divided into two countries, North Vietnam (the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (the Republic of Vietnam). Fear of losing Southeast Asia to the Communist-led independence movement brought U.S. The Vietnam War was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam (The Viet Minh) and communist guerilla forces in the South (known as the. They began when France tried to restore colonial rule after World War II. ![]()
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