Title: The Vietnam War (article) | 1960s America | Khan Academy
Headings: The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War
Overview
Origins of the war in Vietnam
Lyndon Johnson and the war in Vietnam
Richard Nixon and Vietnam
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Content: The Paris Peace Accords established the terms according to which the last remaining US troops in Vietnam would be withdrawn. In 1975, the North Vietnamese finally achieved the objective of uniting the country under one communist government. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was formally established on July 2, 1976, and Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Though the outcome of the war was a clear defeat for the United States, the countries surrounding Vietnam did not subsequently fall to communism, demonstrating the flawed reasoning of the domino theory. The war in Vietnam had lasting consequences for US foreign policy. Congress passed the War Powers Act in 1973, in a clear attempt to reassert a measure of control over the making of foreign policy and to impose constraints on presidential power. For well over a decade, American public opinion was hostile to the idea of foreign interventions. This was known as the “ Vietnam syndrome ,” and it entailed an unwillingness to become bogged down in foreign wars in which American national security interests were unclear. What do you think? Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam?