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What did the communist forces in South Vietnam become known as?
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Viet Cong
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What effect did the withdraw of American troop have on south Vietnam?
South Vietnam was overrun by communist forces.
What year did south Vietnam become communist?
1975
In 1975 south vietnam-?
became Communist and reunited with North Vietnam
What important events happened during Gerald Ford term?
The fall of Cambodia and South Vietnam to Communist forces was probably the big event.
Why did the US become invole in the Vietnam?
To prevent the communist take over of South Vietnam.
Why did the communist forces attack south Vietnam?
They wanted it under Communist North Vietnamese control; a united Vietnam...what it is today. They won the war, remember?
Vietcong army?
Communist sympathizers living in South Vietnam; often conducting guerrilla warfare against Republic of South Vietnam Government forces.
What did the vietcong do?
They were the resistance element within South Vietnam and were largely controlled by the Communist North Vietnamese.
Why does the us support south Vietnam?
Because of the domino theory. The North was communist and wanted to unite Vietnam to become one communist country. The USA backed the south because it wasn't communist and didn't want Vietnam to fall to communism.
Where did the Vietnam War end?
At the South Vietnam Presidential Palace compound in Saigon on April 30, 1975 when North Vietnamese communist forces accepted the surrender of South Vietnam.
Why did US forces invade Vietnam?
The US didn't invade South Vietnam. The Republic of South Vietnam asked for US help as they couldn't stem the Red Tide (communist infiltration).
Vietcong?
Communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954-75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.
