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What statement describes the Tet Offensive?

Tet is the Vietnamese New Year, and until 1968 they celebrated rather than fought. In 1968, the Vietnamese soldiers went on the offensive on Tet taking our soldiers by surprise and in the process, cutting off some of our outlying posts, and killing a large number of our soldiers. In 1968 alone, the U.S. lost nearly 17,000 and the Tet offensive had set the tone for the year.


What year did the Americans evacuate from Saigon in the Vietnam War?

The last US servicemen left the place during the evacuation of Saigon in April 1975. Although President Ford considered the Mayaquez incident in May 1975 to be the end of it. The Mayaquez was a civilian ship taken by (Communist?) Cambodian pirates on the high seas (who may have been sailing ex-US Navy Swift Boats, one of which was reportedly sunk by US jets during the battle).


What year were American troops sent into Vietnam?

The year 1903


What happened to Vietnam after the war?

After the U.S. evacuated the American embassy in Saigon, North Vietnam which had already taken over much of South Vietnam invaded Saigon. They met little resistance. The war continued into the 1980s. The South Vietnamese were left under equipped and poorly trained. South Vietnam was united with North Vietnam. Only this time it was a communist country. Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Mihn City after the North's late leader, Ho Chi Mihn


American troops left Vietnam in what year?

President Gerald Ford pulled the last American Fighting Men out of Vietnam in 1975.