Vietnamization and it's Lasting Effects on South Vietnam and it's Fall
B. Vietnam -- two separate countries
2. Viet Minh Revolt
3. Creation of North and South Vietnam
C. America's objectives in South Vietnam
A. Beginnings of Vietnamization
B. Research of possible withdrawal
1. began in early 1969
III. American Withdrawal and South Vietnamese Buildup
B. Advisor and troop reductions
C. Combat assiezce team reductions
D. South Vietnamese buildup
E. South Vietnamese military additions in 1972
1. Goes in to effect on January 28, 1973
C. Break of the cease fire and North Vietnamese offensive of
E. Resignation of President Thieu
F. General Minh assumes the Presidency
G. Minh fails in negotiations
H. Minh gives in to all North Vietnamese demands
Vietnam was a country that was far removed from the American
people until their history and ours became forever interlinked in what
has come to be known as the Vietnam conflict. It is a classic story
of good guys versus bad, communism versus freedom, and a conezt
struggle for stability. Americas attempt to aid the cause of freedom
was a valid one, but one that ended up with South Vietnam being
dependent upon us for its very life as a nation. "Vietnamization" was
the name for the plan to allow South Vietnam to ezd on its own, and
ended in leaving a country totally on its own, unable to ezd and
Vietnam was a French territory until the Viet Minh insurgency of
the late 1940's and through 1954. Although regarding this uprising as
part of a larger Communist conspiracy, Americans were not
unsympathetic to Vietnamese aspirations for national independence.
The ensueing defeat of the French brought an end to the first stage of
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