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Ho Chi Minh was fighting for what was North Vietnam immediately after WW2 when the French tried to keep Indo China as part of their Empire. As for the 'Free South' I think that may well be clouded by your view of history. When the US Forces returned to the US Vietnam became 1 country ruled from Hanoi. This was in April 1975.
They didn't win, North Vietnam won after the U.S pulled most of our ground troops out. The U.S. launched a few bombing campaigns (Linebacker I and Linebacker II), but eventually South Vietnam lost too much ground to the North and South Vietnam lost the war. Saigon (capital of South Vietnam) fell to communist forces on April 30, 1975. Most U.S. forces had pulled-out of South Vietnam by early 1973. When the north invaded, the south's officers fled, leaving their troops without leaders.
It is estimated that approximately 50,000 Americans went to Canada in order to avoid the draft. The Vietnam War lasted from 1959 to 1975.
The Vietnam War ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. This agreement called for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, and a political solution to be achieved through negotiations between the North and South Vietnamese. However, the war officially ended in 1975 when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, and reunified the country under communist rule.
They fled South Vietnam, not Vietnam; they feared slaughter.
Thieu fled to Taiwan and later to England after the fall of Saigon. Edit by Engl1sh: In case you are asking a question about what happened to Diem: The CIA had someone assassinate Diem so that his corrupted government would be toppled. Afterwards Thieu became President.
This is the main one- South Vietnam and its supporters were not sufficient enough to defeat Communist North Vietnam, who had the help of China and other Communist countries. So the South was defeated, the North took over the South and combined South and North into one country, Vietnam. Due to the whole country becoming Communist many South Viets fled the country as refugees.
One thing that fueled African Americans to migrate was to be accepted as equal.
With diplomatic agreements in place (referred to publicly as "peace with honor"), the US summarily abandoned South Vietnam and the country was taken over by the communist government of North Vietnam.AnswerPresident Richard Nixon ended the war with dialogue first with the Chinese, who probably put strong pressure on the leaders of North Vietnam. Then the US and the North held talks in Paris, culminating with the Paris Peace Accords of 1973. Two years later, all American troops had been withdrawn and the South was overrun. On April 29, 1975, the last Americans flew out of Saigon and the city was captured the following day. Nixon had resigned from office in 1974, and Congress would not approve funds for any continued military activities. As many as 2 million Vietnamese fled the country, and by 1979 more than 500,000 were admitted to the United States as political refugees.
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They were called "Draft Dodgers."
The Americans thought they were teaming up.