Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America's direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam. In January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Its key provisions included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the release of prisoners of war, and the reunification of North and South Vietnam through peaceful means. The South Vietnamese government was to remain in place until new elections were held, and North Vietnamese forces in the South were not to advance...
On June 29, 1966, in a large escalation of the Vietnam War, American aircraft bombed the major North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time. The same day, Secretary of Defense...
On January 23, 1971, after nearly five years of talks, negotiators Henry Kissinger of the United States and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam initialed a peace agreement to end the war in Vietnam. That...
On May 7, 1954, Dien Bien Phu, a major French stronghold in northwest Vietnam, fell to Ho Chi Minh's Vietnamese Communists after fifty-seven days of siege. A few hours later, U.S. Secretary of...
As 1968 began--the third year of U.S. ground-troop fighting in Vietnam--U.S. military leadership was confident that a favorable peace agreement would soon be forced on the North Vietnamese and...
On January 31, 1966, U.S. air strikes against North Vietnam resumed after a five-week pause in an effort to deprive Vietnamese communist forces of essential military supplies and thus the ability...
Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives in 1937. Proving himself an energetic politician, he moved to the Senate in 1949, where he was appointed majority...
On April 21, 1975, Xuan Loc, Saigon's last line of defense against North Vietnamese forces, fell to the Communists. The same day, President Nguyen Van Thieu, leader of South Vietnam since 1967,...
In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched the Easter Offensive against South Vietnamese forces, striking at the north of South Vietnam, the central highlands, and the south near Saigon. The...
A native of the hill country of Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives in 1937. Proving himself an energetic politician, he moved to the Senate in...
On this day in 1968, as part of the Tet Offensive, a squad of Viet Cong guerillas attacks the U.S. embassy in Saigon. The soldiers seized the embassy and held it for six hours until an assault...
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