Can anyone tell me what happened to Vietnam after the US cut & ran at the end of that war?

Question

Yes I know what happened soon after the US cut & ran but I was much more interested in hearing what has happened lately like when Bush went on an official friendly visit to Vietnam to bring them into the WTO & become major US trading partners. It's amazing what a good US Cut & Run will accomplish in the long run isn't it?

Answer 1

You must be having quite a ball since you have asked the question, right?

Anyway, in 2006, Vietnam is considered a ferocious tiger growing at a very respectable rate.

I thought Bush looked funny in that foto op when he wore Vietnamese National costume! Bush now can say, "When I was in Vietnam..."

Answer 2

Peace talks were begun in Paris. Between 1969 and 1973 U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, but the war was expanded to Cambodia and Laos in 1970. Peace talks, which had reached a stalemate in 1971, started again in 1973, producing a cease-fire agreement. Fighting continued, and there were numerous truce violations. In 1975 the North Vietnamese launched a full-scale invasion of the south. The south surrendered later that year, and in 1976 the country was reunited as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. More than 2,000,000 people (including 58,000 Americans) died over the course of the war, about half of them civilians.

Answer 3

The US were helping the South fight the North. The war didn't end before the US left, they just left the South to fight for themselves and the South quickly lost. So basically thousands of Americans lost their lives in Vietnam for nothing. The same would happen if the US just left Iraq. Although I don't think the US should have ever gone into Iraq, I think we need to get them at least as stable as they were before we invaded, before we leave. The big difference is that the North had already attacked the South before the US got involved in Vietnam. In Iraq the US just invaded a sovereign nation for no apparent reason.

Answer 4

I'm a little rusty about the history of the Vietnam War, but I believe the North Vietnamese took control of the whole country (which wasn't much to start out with), the South Vietnamese all either immigrated to America or stayed in the country. It also spreaded Communism to South East Asia. In my opinion the whole thing was the U.S vs The Soviet Union using third parties, like back in Korea. I hope this is accurate.

Answer 5

The north captured saigon(south capital) after two years.A massive emergency evacuation of American diplomats and support personnel, foreign nationals, and Vietnamese refugees, including two thousand Vietnamese orphans during "Operation Babylift," occurred beforehand. In the morning of that day, General Duong Van Minh, who had been president of South Vietnam for only three days after the resignation of Tran Van Huong, made a radio declaration stating "we are here to hand over to you the power in order to avoid bloodshed." North Vietnamese forces accompanied by some Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF) forces fought their way into the city the same day.

Despite some previous predictions that the final battle for Saigon would be long and bloody, only scattered pockets of resistance remained. The only fight left was by the bridge to Saigon which South Vietnamese troops later deserted. The gates of the Independence Palace were destroyed by NVA tanks as they entered. The NLF flag was raised over the Palace at 12:15 pm. Late in the morning of April 29, Armed Forces Radio played the song "White Christmas" as a signal to begin the noncombatant evacuation Operation Frequent Wind.

Vietnamese civilians gathered outside the U.S. embassy and scaled the walls, hoping to claim refugee status. Within 24 hours, the city was renamed "Hồ Chí Minh City", after the Vietnamese revolutionary leader Hồ Chí Minh. Order was slowly restored, although the by-then-deserted U.S. embassy was looted, along with many other businesses. At 3:30 pm, General Duong Van Minh released another radio broadcast, stating "I declare the Saigon government... completely dissolved at all levels." The Vietnam War was over.

April 30 is a public holiday in Vietnam known as Reunification Day (though the reunification of the nation actually occurred on July 2, 1976) or Liberation Day (Ngày Giải Phóng).

Answer 6

Bush befriended them like a good commie, and helped them organize a comunist version of wallstreet, so the globalists can send more American jobs to countries who has employees who work for less than 50 cents a day!

Answer 7

The communists in the north broke the peace agreement, big surprise, and invaded the south. The fall of the south and the ensuing bloodshed was terrible. Chalk that up to the long haired maggot infested liberals in the US who whined and cried to get us out of Nam. Not content with that blood on their hands, the liberals of today want the same carnage repeated by running away from the enemy in Iraq.

Answer 8

All I know is that you can buy clothes at Wal-Mart made in Vietnam....that about sums up the futility of war.

Answer 9

It went back to being majority rule, something like here in the u.s.

Answer 10

They became to move towards a market oriented form of economy !!!