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class="video-player__close" aria-label="Close and pause the video" type="button"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false"><path d="M19 6.41L17.59 5 12 10.59 6.41 5 5 6.41 10.59 12 5 17.59 6.41 19 12 13.41 17.59 19 19 17.59 13.41 12 19 6.41z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></button><div class="video-player-decoy" style="background-image:url(https://cropper.watch.aetnd.com/public-content-aetn.video.aetnd.com/video-thumbnails/AETN-History_VMS/21/204/tdih-march29-HD.jpg)"><div class="video-player-decoy__title-wrapper"><div class="video-player-decoy__title" aria-hidden="true">This Day in History: 03/29/1973 - U.S. withdraws from Vietnam</div></div><button type="button" class="video-player-decoy__play" aria-label="Play This Day in History: 03/29/1973 - U.S. withdraws from Vietnam"><span class="video-player-decoy__play-icon"></span></button></div></div></div></figure></div></div><div class="article-content-box"><div class="article-content content"><p>March 29, 1973: Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/40-years-ago-us-withdraws-from-vietnam/">last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam</a> as Hanoi frees many of the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the <a href="/topics/vietnam-war">Vietnam War</a> was at an end. </p><p>In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam.</p><div class="wp-block wp-block-history-video"><div class="continues-video-player"><div class="video-player" tabindex="-1"><button class="video-player__close" aria-label="Close and pause the video" type="button"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false"><path d="M19 6.41L17.59 5 12 10.59 6.41 5 5 6.41 10.59 12 5 17.59 6.41 19 12 13.41 17.59 19 19 17.59 13.41 12 19 6.41z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></button><div class="video-player-decoy" style="background-image:url(https://cropper.watch.aetnd.com/images.history.com/images/media/video/history_vietnam_hd_search_destroy_sf_1278786/History_Vietnam_HD_Search_Destroy_SF_still_624x352.jpg)"><div class="video-player-decoy__title-wrapper"><div class="video-player-decoy__title" aria-hidden="true">Vietnamization</div></div><button type="button" class="video-player-decoy__play" aria-label="Play Vietnamization"><span class="video-player-decoy__play-icon"></span></button></div></div></div></div><p>In 1961, after two decades of indirect military aid, U.S. President <a href="/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> sent the first large force of U.S. military personnel to support the ineffectual autocratic regime of South Vietnam against the communist North. Three years later, with the South Vietnamese government crumbling, President <a href="/topics/us-presidents/lyndon-b-johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> ordered limited bombing raids on North Vietnam, and Congress authorized the use of U.S. troops. By 1965, North Vietnamese offensives left President Johnson with two choices: escalate U.S. involvement or withdraw. Johnson ordered the former, and troop levels soon jumped to more than 300,000 as U.S. air forces commenced the largest bombing campaign in history.</p><p>During the next few years, the extended length of the war, the high number of U.S. casualties, and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes, such as the massacre at My Lai, helped turn many in the United States against the Vietnam War. The communists’ <a href="/topics/vietnam-war/tet-offensive">Tet Offensive</a> of 1968 crushed U.S. hopes of an imminent end to the conflict and galvanized U.S. opposition to the war. In response, Johnson announced in March 1968 that he would not seek reelection, citing what he perceived to be his responsibility in creating a perilous national division over Vietnam. He also authorized the beginning of peace talks.</p><p>In the spring of 1969, as protests against the war escalated in the United States, U.S. troop strength in the war-torn country reached its peak at nearly 550,000 men. <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/richard-m-nixon">Richard Nixon</a>, the new U.S. president, began U.S. troop withdrawal and “<a href="http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnamization">Vietnamization</a>” of the war effort that year, but he intensified bombing. Large U.S. troop withdrawals continued in the early 1970s as President Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempts to block enemy supply routes along Vietnam’s borders. This expansion of the war, which accomplished few positive results, led to new waves of protests in the United States and elsewhere.</p><div class="block-story-grid"><div class="card-grid is-style-3-col"><div class="card-grid__container"><article class="card-grid-item"><a aria-label="How the Vietnam War Ratcheted Up Under 5 U.S. Presidents" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" class="card-grid-item__link" link-name="" href="/news/us-presidents-vietnam-war-escalation"><figure class="card-grid-item__image-fit image-fit is-fallback"><div class="card-grid-item__image-contain image-fit__image-contain" aria-hidden="true"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;overflow:hidden;width:initial;height:initial;background:none;opacity:1;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" aria-hidden="true" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="card-grid-item__image image-fit__image" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover"/><noscript><img alt="" aria-hidden="true" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover" class="card-grid-item__image image-fit__image" src="https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/history-article-default.desktop.jpg"/></noscript></span></div></figure></a><div class="card-grid-item__contain"><a class="card-grid-item__title-link" link-name="How the Vietnam War Ratcheted Up Under 5 U.S. Presidents - 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For many soldiers, coming home was the happiest part of the war. But some were surprised by the response they received when they returned." href="/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-in-hd-videos-famous-american-vietnam-vets"><h2 class="card-grid-item__title">Famous American Vietnam Vets</h2><p class="card-grid-item__excerpt">For many soldiers, coming home was the happiest part of the war. But some were surprised by the response they received when they returned.</p><div class="card-grid-item__cta"><span class="button is-style-standalone has-icon">Watch now<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" width="18" height="18" class="card-grid-item__cta-icon"><path d="M17.0297 4.72031L23.7797 11.4703C23.925 11.6156 24 11.8078 24 11.9578C24 12.1078 23.9268 12.3416 23.7803 12.488L17.0303 19.238C16.7373 19.5309 16.2624 19.5309 15.9699 19.238C15.6774 18.945 15.677 18.4702 15.9699 18.1777L21.4403 12.7073H0.75C0.335438 12.7073 0 12.3719 0 11.9995C0 11.585 0.335438 11.2495 0.75 11.2495H21.4406L15.9703 5.77921C15.6773 5.48625 15.6773 5.0114 15.9703 4.7189C16.2633 4.4264 16.7391 4.42687 17.0297 4.72031Z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></span></div></a></div></article><article class="card-grid-item"><a aria-label="Vietnam War Protests" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" class="card-grid-item__link" link-name="" href="/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests"><figure class="card-grid-item__image-fit image-fit is-fallback"><div class="card-grid-item__image-contain image-fit__image-contain" aria-hidden="true"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;overflow:hidden;width:initial;height:initial;background:none;opacity:1;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" aria-hidden="true" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="card-grid-item__image image-fit__image" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover"/><noscript><img alt="" aria-hidden="true" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover" class="card-grid-item__image image-fit__image" src="https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/history-article-default.desktop.jpg"/></noscript></span></div></figure></a><div class="card-grid-item__contain"><a class="card-grid-item__title-link" link-name="Vietnam War Protests - Antiwar Movement Begins In August 1964, North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, and President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam. By the time U.S. planes began regular bombings of North Vietnam in February 1965, some critics had begun to question the […]" href="/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests"><h2 class="card-grid-item__title">Vietnam War Protests</h2><p class="card-grid-item__excerpt">Antiwar Movement Begins In August 1964, North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, and President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam. By the time U.S. planes began regular bombings of North Vietnam in February 1965, some critics had begun to question the […]</p><div class="card-grid-item__cta"><span class="button is-style-standalone has-icon">Read more<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" width="18" height="18" class="card-grid-item__cta-icon"><path d="M17.0297 4.72031L23.7797 11.4703C23.925 11.6156 24 11.8078 24 11.9578C24 12.1078 23.9268 12.3416 23.7803 12.488L17.0303 19.238C16.7373 19.5309 16.2624 19.5309 15.9699 19.238C15.6774 18.945 15.677 18.4702 15.9699 18.1777L21.4403 12.7073H0.75C0.335438 12.7073 0 12.3719 0 11.9995C0 11.585 0.335438 11.2495 0.75 11.2495H21.4406L15.9703 5.77921C15.6773 5.48625 15.6773 5.0114 15.9703 4.7189C16.2633 4.4264 16.7391 4.42687 17.0297 4.72031Z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></span></div></a></div></article></div></div></div><p>Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Its key provisions included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the release of prisoners of war, and the reunification of North and South Vietnam through peaceful means. The South Vietnamese government was to remain in place until new elections were held, and North Vietnamese forces in the South were not to advance further nor be reinforced.</p><p>In reality, however, the agreement was little more than a face-saving gesture by the U.S. government. Even before the last American troops departed on March 29, the communists violated the cease-fire, and by early 1974 full-scale war had resumed. At the end of 1974, South Vietnamese authorities reported that 80,000 of their soldiers and civilians had been killed in fighting during the year, making it the most costly of the Vietnam War.</p><p>On April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces. North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, accepting the surrender of South Vietnam later in the day, remarked, “You have nothing to fear; between Vietnamese there are no victors and no vanquished. Only the Americans have been defeated.” The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular foreign war in U.S. history and cost 58,000 American lives. 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U.S. withdraws from Vietnam"},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"credit":"","credit_url":"","getty_2025":""},"class_list":["post-2974","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"prepublish_checks":{},"description":{"rendered":"\u003cp class=\"attachment\"\u003e\u003ca href='https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg'\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=300\u0026amp;height=169\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=300 300w, https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=1024 1024w, https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=1536 1536w, https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=2048 2048w, https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"Russell Mitchell recaps the major historical events that occurred on March 29th in this video clip from This Day In History. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of spying for the USSR, by means of giving the Soviets American nuclear secrets. Comedian Jack Benny made his radio debut on this day along with his violin as a prop. Ending American involvement in the Vietnam War, the last US troops left Vietnam on March 29th. Also, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian president was declared an enemy by Israel."},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image/jpeg","media_details":{"file":"2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"width":"150","height":"150","crop":"1","source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=150\u0026height=150\u0026crop=1:1","file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"},"medium":{"width":"300","height":169,"crop":false,"source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=300\u0026height=169","file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"},"medium_large":{"width":"768","height":"0","crop":false,"source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=768","file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"},"large":{"width":"1024","height":576,"crop":false,"source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=1024\u0026height=576","file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"width":1536,"height":864,"crop":false,"source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=1536\u0026height=864","file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"},"2048x2048":{"width":2048,"height":1152,"crop":false,"source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=2048\u0026height=1152","file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"},"corpnews_large":{"width":1250,"height":625,"crop":true,"source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=1250\u0026height=625\u0026crop=2:1","file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"},"corpnews_medium":{"width":800,"height":400,"crop":true,"source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=800\u0026height=400\u0026crop=2:1","file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"},"corpnews_small":{"width":500,"height":250,"crop":true,"source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg?width=500\u0026height=250\u0026crop=2:1","file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"},"full":{"file":"this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"mime_type":"image/jpeg","source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"}},"width":1920,"height":1080,"filesize":1225836},"post":2973,"source_url":"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2012/05/this-day-in-history-03-29-1973-u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam.jpg"}},"post":{"id":12554,"date":"2009-11-24T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https://wp.editorial.aetnd.com/this-day-in-history/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-ends"},"modified":"2024-03-19T19:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T23:20:20","slug":"u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"this-day-in-history","link":"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam","title":{"rendered":"U.S. troops withdraw from Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u003cp\u003eMarch 29, 1973: Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/40-years-ago-us-withdraws-from-vietnam/\"\u003elast U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam\u003c/a\u003e as Hanoi frees many of the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the \u003ca href=\"/topics/vietnam-war\"\u003eVietnam War\u003c/a\u003e was at an end. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1961, after two decades of indirect military aid, U.S. President \u003ca href=\"/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy\"\u003eJohn F. Kennedy\u003c/a\u003e sent the first large force of U.S. military personnel to support the ineffectual autocratic regime of South Vietnam against the communist North. Three years later, with the South Vietnamese government crumbling, President \u003ca href=\"/topics/us-presidents/lyndon-b-johnson\"\u003eLyndon B. Johnson\u003c/a\u003e ordered limited bombing raids on North Vietnam, and Congress authorized the use of U.S. troops. By 1965, North Vietnamese offensives left President Johnson with two choices: escalate U.S. involvement or withdraw. Johnson ordered the former, and troop levels soon jumped to more than 300,000 as U.S. air forces commenced the largest bombing campaign in history.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the next few years, the extended length of the war, the high number of U.S. casualties, and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes, such as the massacre at My Lai, helped turn many in the United States against the Vietnam War. The communists’ \u003ca href=\"/topics/vietnam-war/tet-offensive\"\u003eTet Offensive\u003c/a\u003e of 1968 crushed U.S. hopes of an imminent end to the conflict and galvanized U.S. opposition to the war. In response, Johnson announced in March 1968 that he would not seek reelection, citing what he perceived to be his responsibility in creating a perilous national division over Vietnam. He also authorized the beginning of peace talks.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1969, as protests against the war escalated in the United States, U.S. troop strength in the war-torn country reached its peak at nearly 550,000 men. \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/richard-m-nixon\"\u003eRichard Nixon\u003c/a\u003e, the new U.S. president, began U.S. troop withdrawal and “\u003ca href=\"http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnamization\"\u003eVietnamization\u003c/a\u003e” of the war effort that year, but he intensified bombing. Large U.S. troop withdrawals continued in the early 1970s as President Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempts to block enemy supply routes along Vietnam’s borders. 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aria-label=\"HISTORY: Vietnam War Protests\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" src=\"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2010/02/vietnam-war-protests-gettyimages-1092708702.jpg?width=768\" class=\"card-grid-item__image image-fit__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"HISTORY: Vietnam War Protests\" /\u003e\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__title-contain\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__meta-cat card-grid-item__meta-cat--narrow\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cspan class=\"card-grid-item__meta-cat-text\"\u003eVietnam War\u003c/span\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003ch3 class=\"card-grid-item__title h5\"\u003eVietnam War Protests\u003c/h3\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/article\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Its key provisions included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the release of prisoners of war, and the reunification of North and South Vietnam through peaceful means. The South Vietnamese government was to remain in place until new elections were held, and North Vietnamese forces in the South were not to advance further nor be reinforced.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn reality, however, the agreement was little more than a face-saving gesture by the U.S. government. Even before the last American troops departed on March 29, the communists violated the cease-fire, and by early 1974 full-scale war had resumed. At the end of 1974, South Vietnamese authorities reported that 80,000 of their soldiers and civilians had been killed in fighting during the year, making it the most costly of the Vietnam War.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces. North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, accepting the surrender of South Vietnam later in the day, remarked, “You have nothing to fear; between Vietnamese there are no victors and no vanquished. Only the Americans have been defeated.” The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular foreign war in U.S. history and cost 58,000 American lives. As many as two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians were killed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","protected":false,"blocks":[{"clientId":"eb850928-db18-44bd-b773-128e0ac84f52","name":"core/paragraph","attributes":{"content":"March 29, 1973: Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/40-years-ago-us-withdraws-from-vietnam/\"\u003elast U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam\u003c/a\u003e as Hanoi frees many of the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the \u003ca href=\"/topics/vietnam-war\"\u003eVietnam War\u003c/a\u003e was at an end. 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America’s direct eight-year intervention in the \u003ca href=\"/topics/vietnam-war\"\u003eVietnam War\u003c/a\u003e was at an end. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1961, after two decades of indirect military aid, U.S. President \u003ca href=\"/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy\"\u003eJohn F. Kennedy\u003c/a\u003e sent the first large force of U.S. military personnel to support the ineffectual autocratic regime of South Vietnam against the communist North. Three years later, with the South Vietnamese government crumbling, President \u003ca href=\"/topics/us-presidents/lyndon-b-johnson\"\u003eLyndon B. Johnson\u003c/a\u003e ordered limited bombing raids on North Vietnam, and Congress authorized the use of U.S. troops. By 1965, North Vietnamese offensives left President Johnson with two choices: escalate U.S. involvement or withdraw. Johnson ordered the former, and troop levels soon jumped to more than 300,000 as U.S. air forces commenced the largest bombing campaign in history.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the next few years, the extended length of the war, the high number of U.S. casualties, and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes, such as the massacre at My Lai, helped turn many in the United States against the Vietnam War. The communists’ \u003ca href=\"/topics/vietnam-war/tet-offensive\"\u003eTet Offensive\u003c/a\u003e of 1968 crushed U.S. hopes of an imminent end to the conflict and galvanized U.S. opposition to the war. In response, Johnson announced in March 1968 that he would not seek reelection, citing what he perceived to be his responsibility in creating a perilous national division over Vietnam. He also authorized the beginning of peace talks.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1969, as protests against the war escalated in the United States, U.S. troop strength in the war-torn country reached its peak at nearly 550,000 men. \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/richard-m-nixon\"\u003eRichard Nixon\u003c/a\u003e, the new U.S. president, began U.S. troop withdrawal and “\u003ca href=\"http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnamization\"\u003eVietnamization\u003c/a\u003e” of the war effort that year, but he intensified bombing. Large U.S. troop withdrawals continued in the early 1970s as President Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempts to block enemy supply routes along Vietnam’s borders. This expansion of the war, which accomplished few positive results, led to new waves of protests in the United States and elsewhere.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"block-story-grid\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid post-grid is-style-3-col \"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003carticle class=\"card-grid-item post-grid-item post-grid-item-sm-50 post-grid-item-md-33\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/BlogPosting\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__link\" itemprop=\"url\" aria-label=\"How the Vietnam War Ratcheted Up Under 5 US Presidents\" \u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cfigure class=\"card-grid-item__image-fit image-fit\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/ImageObject\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__image-contain image-fit__image-contain\" aria-label=\"Vietnam War\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" 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post-grid-item-md-33\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/BlogPosting\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__link\" itemprop=\"url\" aria-label=\"Famous American Vietnam Vets\" \u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cfigure class=\"card-grid-item__image-fit image-fit\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/ImageObject\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__image-contain image-fit__image-contain\" aria-label=\"\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://wp.editorial.aetnd.com/wp-content/themes/corpnews/assets/images/corpnews-card-fallback-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"CorpNews Fallback Image\" class=\"card-grid-item__image image-fit__image\" /\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__title-contain\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__meta-cat card-grid-item__meta-cat--narrow\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cspan class=\"card-grid-item__meta-cat-text\"\u003eVietnam War\u003c/span\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003ch3 class=\"card-grid-item__title h5\"\u003eFamous American Vietnam Vets\u003c/h3\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/article\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003carticle class=\"card-grid-item post-grid-item post-grid-item-sm-50 post-grid-item-md-33\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/BlogPosting\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__link\" itemprop=\"url\" aria-label=\"Vietnam War Protests\" \u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cfigure class=\"card-grid-item__image-fit image-fit\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/ImageObject\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__image-contain image-fit__image-contain\" aria-label=\"HISTORY: Vietnam War Protests\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" src=\"https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2010/02/vietnam-war-protests-gettyimages-1092708702.jpg?width=768\" class=\"card-grid-item__image image-fit__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"HISTORY: Vietnam War Protests\" /\u003e\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__title-contain\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"card-grid-item__meta-cat card-grid-item__meta-cat--narrow\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cspan class=\"card-grid-item__meta-cat-text\"\u003eVietnam War\u003c/span\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003ch3 class=\"card-grid-item__title h5\"\u003eVietnam War Protests\u003c/h3\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/article\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Its key provisions included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the release of prisoners of war, and the reunification of North and South Vietnam through peaceful means. The South Vietnamese government was to remain in place until new elections were held, and North Vietnamese forces in the South were not to advance further nor be reinforced.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn reality, however, the agreement was little more than a face-saving gesture by the U.S. government. Even before the last American troops departed on March 29, the communists violated the cease-fire, and by early 1974 full-scale war had resumed. At the end of 1974, South Vietnamese authorities reported that 80,000 of their soldiers and civilians had been killed in fighting during the year, making it the most costly of the Vietnam War.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces. North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, accepting the surrender of South Vietnam later in the day, remarked, “You have nothing to fear; between Vietnamese there are no victors and no vanquished. Only the Americans have been defeated.” The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular foreign war in U.S. history and cost 58,000 American lives. As many as two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians were killed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","protected":false,"blocks":[{"clientId":"eb850928-db18-44bd-b773-128e0ac84f52","name":"core/paragraph","attributes":{"content":"March 29, 1973: Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/40-years-ago-us-withdraws-from-vietnam/\"\u003elast U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam\u003c/a\u003e as Hanoi frees many of the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the \u003ca href=\"/topics/vietnam-war\"\u003eVietnam War\u003c/a\u003e was at an end. 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