October 6th, 2005
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Originally Posted by Bory Didn't the conflict end in 1973 at the Paris Peace Accords, which saw the withdrawl of North Vietnamese forces from the South, maintaing boths nations sovergnty, and the Withdrawl of US Military Forces.
The Objectives of the US, and the Aussies and Kiwi's, was to keep the South Democratic, by "forcably removing" North Vietnamese Forces.
This was achieved. So therefore, they "Won" the war. They achived their objectives. . | Direct US involvment in the war ended in 1973, and in 1974 USA cut the fundings to the Saigon gouvernment. Quote:
In December 1974, Congress completed passage of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974 that voted to cut off all military funding to the Saigon government and made unenforceable the peace terms negotiated by Nixon.
By 1975, the South Vietnamese Army stood alone against the powerful North Vietnamese. Despite Vietnamization and the 1972 victories against the PAVN offensive, the ARVN was plagued with corruption, desertion, low wages, and lack of supplies. Then in early March the PAVN launched a powerful offensive into the poorly defended Central Highlands, splitting the Republic of Vietnam in two. President Thieu was fearful that ARVN troops in the northern provinces would be isolated due to a PAVN encirclement. He decided on a redeployment of ARVN troops from the northern provinces to the Central Highlands. But the withdrawal of South Vietnamese forces soon turned into a bloody retreat as the PAVN crossed the DMZ. While South Vietnamese forces retreated from the northern provinces, splintered South Vietnamese forces in the Central Highlands fought desperately against the PAVN.
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