Ultimately the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam could be used to define the end of the war, the last of the American troops did not leave until the Paris Peace accords were signed in 1973.
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Conventional forces in large numbers began arriving in country in '65.
He wanted to end the stalemate and remove U.S. troops from Vietnam.
American involvement began in 1955. The first combat troops arrived in 1965, and we fought the war until January 1973.
All American troops, except for approximately 16,000 military advisors, withdrew from Vietnam on November 30, 1972 ending all combat operations.
It took 4 years to fully withdraw U.S. troops.
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The NVA conducted conventional military offensive operations.
We left, they left. That was the factor.
Richard M. Nixon is not responsible for bringing troops home because he continued to escalate the Vietnam War through the secret bombing campaign in Cambodia and Laos. The withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam was later negotiated by Nixon's successor, President Gerald Ford.
The American Military pulled the troops out of Vietnam because of political pressure on the home front.
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Complete withdrawal was achieved on December 16, 2011.
Vietnam shifted the burden of the ground fighting from American troops to South Vietnamese troops during the later stages of the war. This was called "Vietnamization".
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