The war spread to Laos and Cambodia as the U.S. had been attempting to damage the communist resource routes. In spite of the fact that heavy bombings continued throughout North Vietnam, the government there did not show any signs of being overcome.
In addition to his citizens lobbying for the war to be ended and the North Vietnamese keeping their strength, Nixon also had to deal with the Watergate scandal. This meant that he had lesser time to deal with the problem in Southeast Asia or to assist the South Vietnamese government.
The Paris Peace Agreement from the 27th of January, 1973, had put an end to the fighting between the U.S. And the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. In spite of the peaceful character of the situation, matters did not change much, and hostilities continued between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The fact that people from South Vietnam had been outnumbered and that they no longer received significant military and material assistance from the U.S. had become obvious. The Communists eventually put an end to the Second Indochina War on the 30th of April, 1975 as they captured Saigon.
Works cited:
1. Cheng Guan, Ang, "Singapore and the Vietnam...
Liebovich, Louis W., Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003) iii.
3. Mueller, John, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York: Basic Books, 1989) null3.
4. Schulzinger, Robert D., A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) 299.
John Mueller, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York: Basic Books, 1989) null3.
idem
Ang Cheng Guan, "Singapore and the Vietnam War," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40.2 (2009)
Ang Cheng Guan, "Singapore and the Vietnam War," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40.2 (2009)
Robert D. Schulzinger, A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) 299
Louis W. Liebovich, Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003) iii
Robert D. Schulzinger, A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) iii
