Why did US leave Vietnam in 1975?

Answer 1

Media criticism of the war and antiwar activism in America. Restrictions placed by civilian politicians on the military's operations or, conversely, blamed U.S. military chiefs for not providing civilian laders with a sound strategy for victory. U.S. leaders underestimated the tenacity of the enemy. * NOTE: This is by Viet Nam Generations, Inc. and the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virgina at Charlottesville. These are notes from American soldiers that served and this meeting took place in Detroit: They talk about the horrors they began to inflict on the enemies and the people of the villages. Fear and staying alive numbed the brain to what the public could not or did not want to understand. South Vietnam had nothing that realistically threatened the U.S and to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, it to use the height of criminal hypocrisy we we feel has torn this country apart. We found that all too often American men were dying in those rice paddies for want of support from their allies. How monies from American taxes were used for a corrupt dictatorial regime. We saw that many people in this country had a one-sided idea of who was kept free by the flag, and blacks provided the highest percentage of casualties. We watched the U.S. FALSIFICATION OF BODY COUNTS, in fact, the glorification of body counts. We listened while month after month we were told the back of the enemy was about to break. We watched while men charged up hills because a general said that hill has to be take, AND AFTER LOSING ONE PLATTON OR 2 THEY MARCHED AWAY TO LEAVE THE HILL FOR REOCCUPATION BY THE NORTH VIETNAMESE. We couldn't lose, and we couldn't retreat, and because it didn't matter how many American bodies were lost to prove that point, and so there were Hamburger Hills and Khe Sanhs and Hill 81s and Fire Base 6s, etc. Each day to facilitate the process by which the U.S. washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life so that the U.S. doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows WE MADE A MISTAKE! Someone had to die so that Pres. Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the 1st President to lose a war." We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam .... over a mistake? We asked ... where are the leaders of our country? We're here to ask where are McNamara, Rostow, Bundy, Gilpatrick and so many others? Where are they now that we, the men they sent off to war, have returned? These are the commanders who have deserted their troops. And there is no more serious crime in the laws of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The marines say they never even leave their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind pious shielf of public rectitude. They've left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country ..." Go on any site and talk to Vietnam soldiers who will give you the real reasons why they retreated, body counts of men who died for their country and the REAL battles they won and DID NOT win. The social change from the war changed social lives so everyone began to have sexual intercourse with eachothers wives. MANY PEOPLE lost their lives. yah so there take that lol

Answer 2

The biggest difficulty of getting out of the whole war was the POWs. If it hadn't been for those POWs, the US could've called it's own shots. But since Hanoi had them, they were calling the shots. Nixon not only had to negotiate for the Prisoners of War, but had to visit Red China and the USSR, in 1972. Those visits, were obviously intended to let the Communist Superpowers know that the US was going to leave Vietnam, but was going to bomb the heck out of Hanoi (Christmas bombing of 1972), and get the POWs back before that would happen...and that Communist China/Soviet Union knowing that the US intended to depart, shouldn't get excited about it and go on a military alert.

With their reassurances that they wouldn't go on a military alert, Nixon had the green light to carry out his plan. Which he did, successfully.

Nearly every one of those POWs in North Vietnam were downed airmen. Next time there's a war, we'll use UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). Then there WILL NOT BE ANY MORE HOSTAGES!

Answer 3

Ho Chi Minh signed a treaty with the united states agreeing to withdrawal.