Who won the Vietnam War?
“North” Vietnam reunited the country the first time since the French had taken it over and attempted to colonize it centuries ago In the 20th century the French had lost it to Japan during WWII, then the French split the country when they were unable to retake the North, then the US moved in when the French gave up in the early 1960’s then the US gave up in the 1970’s
North Vietnam simply put. Sentenasi-America did not lose city after city in the 1974 to 1975 time frame when South Vietnam fell; the last American combat troops left in late 1972 and the US provided air support after that time so the South Vietnamese lost city after city to be correct about it. The US withdrew it’s combat troops in accordance with the Paris Peace Accords with the further conditions that the North Vietnamese would do the same and not invade South Vietnam and had another agreement with the South Vietnamese that if the NVA did broke the treaty the US would put combat troops back in and protect the South; both the US and North Vietnam broke the treaty as the North did invade and we did not send combat troops back in as we had agreed to do.
Over 50,000 brave American soldiers died and over 300,000 were injured. This is only a measure in American lives; it does not count the number of South Vietnamese lives – the people we went in to help in order to preserve democracy – and those of other allied forces in this war. (Allied forces against communist Vietnam were: South Vietnam, United States of America, South Korea, Australia, Philippines, New Zealand, Khmer Republic, Thailand, and Kingdom of Laos.) US troops were deployed in Vietnam in 1965 but the war had started in 1959. Millions of Vietnamese, Laos and Cambodian lives were lost. The war ended on April 30th, 1975 with the capture of Saigon by the communist forces and the surrender of General Duong Van Minh (South Vietnam). Vietnam agreed to pay for war reparations, and their economy seemed to have plummeted drastically after the war and depended much on the US economy to remain afloat. The US was defeated in the battlefield but Vietnam appears to have surrendered their e
