Poorly in most cases, quite harshly in rare cases. Many troops had only rare exposure to the Vietnamese. Some Soldiers did treat the Vietnamese very well and bonded with them. It is hard to generalize about this. A Soldier could be mean to a villager while on patrol, but very nice to the ones he encoutered off duty. Cultural training wasn't very good and this did hamper their ability to develop relationships.
Vietnam shifted the burden of the ground fighting from American troops to South Vietnamese troops during the later stages of the war. This was called "Vietnamization".
During the Vietnam War, the United States supported South Vietnam. This was an attempt to prevent communism from spreading from North Vietnam.
Vietnamization
train south vietnamese troops to replace the us troops
Army of the republic of Vietnam
The Vietminh, or Vietnamese nationalists, fought against the Japanese troops which occupied Vietnam during World War II. Vo Nguyen Giap led the Vietminh troops.
Roughly a million Vietnamese were killed in the war.
North Vietnamese Army; regular army troops.
The North Vietnamese won!
Vietnamization
Because the Vietnamese election had been cancelled To train South Vietnamese soldiers To overthrow South Vietnamese leaders
The people of the United States came to feel that the war in Vietnam was unjustified. President Nixon withdrew troops and the North Vietnamese aided by China took over South Vietnam.
The us slowly pulled the troops out and handed the fighting over to the south vietnamese army
There were over 1.3 million military deaths in the Vietnam War.
They were called peace negotiations; and the US simply wanted the North Vietnamese to pull their troops out of SOUTH Vietnam and quit trying to take it over.
Not many because most of the communist troops were from the north. Take my word cas I am vietnamese if you can't tell by my name
Nixon's plan for Vietnamization was to slowly replace the American troops fighting in Vietnam with Vietnam troops. Slowly bringing the Americans out of the war and helping the Vietnamese people have control over the conflict.
Perform secret bombings in Cambodia Have the South Vietnamese do the bulk of the fighting Withdraw troops through Vietnamization
ARVN=Army Republic of South Vietnam. NVA=North Vietnamese Army.
after North Vietnamese troops took over Saigon in 1975.
Believe it or not, the first troops into Vietnam were not conventional troops. They were actually the Green Berets, or the 10th Special Operations Forces. They were there to train the South Vietnamese to fight the Guerrilla Vietcong in South Vietnam. They first went in country in the 1950's.
1957 - 65 - South Vietnamese army against North Vietnamese Communist rebels (Viet Cong) 1965 - 69 - The war itself. US involved in fighting. US troops (with South Vietnamese army troops) against Viet Cong 1969 - 73 - Vietnamisation. US troops start leaving Vietnam. March 29, 1973 - Last US troops leave.
North Vietnamese troops would be allowed to stay in South Vietnam.
North Vietnamese troops would be allowed to stay in South Vietnam.
The plan for the gradual removal of American troops from south Vietnam was called Vietnamization. South Vietnamese troops were trained to use American arms and materiel to protect their country.