The Country of Vietnam lies to the south of China. Laors and Cambodia lie to the west. South China lies to the east. Vietnam is shaped like and S. It stretches the length of Indochinese Peninsula and covers a surface area of 128,000 square miles. Making Vietnam roughly the size of the U.S. state of New Mexico. Vietnam has a beautiful landscape. It has soaring mountains. It has forest that include exotic plants, and amazing rivers, waterfalls, and beaches.

Vietnam was divided into two parts, North Vietnam, the communist, and South Vietnam. The two halves of the country were divided by the 17th parallel. The North was known as the Democra

In the election of 1968 Richard Nixon was elected and promised to get out country out of the war. He started the Vietnamization which when we sent our troops to equip and train the South Vietnamese to take over fighting so U.S. troops could come home.

74% said they would serve again knowing the outcome.

People in the U.S. were getting tired of the War they felt that the money that was being spent on the war which was approximately twenty-billion dollars could be used to help fund American programs.

The U.S. did not lose the war. The fall of Saigon happened April 30, 1975, two years AFTER the American military left Vietnam. The last American troops departed in their entirety March 29, 1973. We could not lose a war that we had stopped fighting. We fought to an agreed stalemate. The peace settlement was signed in Paris on January 27, 1973. It called for the release of all U.S. prisoners, and withdrawal of U.S. forces.

The average age of the 58,148 killed in Vietnam was 23.11 years.

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