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: The first postwar decade was marked by a continuation of the wartime subsidy system, the regimentation of daily living and the same hard-line ideology that had reigned during the war. In the South, people were imprisoned, property was seized, intellectuals were purged. Careers -- and lives -- were ended. This period was also marked by military conflict on the western border with Cambodia and on the northern border with China. Our newly achieved national independence turned into international isolation and transformed our recently unified country into a territory riddled with poverty, backwardness and repression. I lived in Hanoi in those years, working as an archivist at the Institute for Religion. They were hard years; only after a decade was the "Doi Moi" policy of economic liberalization introduced. In 1994, the U.S. embargo on Vietnam was lifted and the normalization process between Vietnam and the United States began to accelerate. Today, for most Americans, the Vietnam War belongs to history.