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The 1973 Paris Accord required all external troops to be withdrawn and all external supply of war materials to cease. The Free World side honoured this. North Vietnam and its backers USSR and China did not. The Ho Chi Minh Trail was expanded to a four lane highway with a petroleum pipeline beside it to pour supply into South Vietnam.
In 1975 the North Vietnam regular army attacked across the border from Laos with conventional arms including tanks and artillery, supported by this supply line. The South Vietnam forces, without resupply, had to conserve ammunition, and could put up little credible resistance to this overwhelming force. The South Vietnamese were decisively defeated in the field and capitulated to avoid unneccessary bloodshed.
Acting President of South Vietnam Duong Van Minh surrendered on 30 April 1975.
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Who was president who ended the Vietnam war?
The Vietnam war ended in 1975, Gerald Ford was president.
America's involvement in the Vietnam War ended under the administration of President?
Vietnam was not a war it was an action.
Who was the president that diplomatically recognized the Vietnam government twenty years after the Vietnam war ended?
Lyndon B Johnson
At the end of the Vietnam war did it become an independent country?
When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, North and South Vietnam became one communist nation called Vietnam.
How did the fall of Saigon end an era?
The fall of Saigon ended the Vietnam war and signified a start of the Communist ruling in Vietnam.
