Title: VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR | Facts and Details
Headings: VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR
VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR
VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR
Vietnamese Government After the War
Boat People Flee Vietnam
Vietnamese Government After the Vietnam War
Problems with the Vietnamese Economy After the Vietnam War in 1975
Economic Policy After the Vietnam War
Results of the Economic Policy After the Vietnam War
Hard Times for South Vietnamese After the Vietnam War
Society in Vietnam After Reunification in 1975
Repression and Coercion and Changes in Vietnamese Society After 1975
Post-Vietnam-War Reeducation Camps
Hardships at the Reeducation Camps
Life in Vietnam After the War
Hunger and Queues in Hanoi
Repression and New Economic Zones After the Vietnam War
Harsh Economic Life in the late 1970s and Early 1980s
Army Says Errors Made after Vietnam Re-Unified
Vietnam’s Foreign Relations After the Vietnam War
Vietnam and Cambodia
1979 Chinese-Vietnamese Border War
Reasons for 1979 Chinese-Vietnamese Border War
Events Before the China-Vietnam War
Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Debacle in Vietnam in 1979

Content: VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR | Facts and Details
VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR
VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR
On the first day of their victory, the communists changed Saigon’s name to Ho Chi Minh City. The fall of Saigon meant and the reunification of North and South Vietnam meant that for the first time Vietnam existed as an independent nation within its current borders. The sudden success of the 1975 advance on Saigon was so swift and unexpected that the government in North Vietnam had no real plan for reunification. North and South had very different social and economic systems. Plus, there were a lot of wounds that had to heal. The victorious North Vietnam government was suddenly faced with task of reunifying and rebuilding a new country physically decimated and bitterly divided by war. There was bitterness and suspicion on both sides. The economy was in ruins. Damage from the war included villages and rice fields littered with mines fighting and large swath of the country poisoned by Agent Orange. On top of that you had a population—including an entire generation— bruised, exhausted and battered by war, that had more or less been going on non-stop since World War II.