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Prince sihanouk
His policies for dealing with a domestic uprising by a Communist group known as the Khmer Rouge, and for accommodating the presence of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops inside Cambodian territory, were controversial. The pro-U.S. Cambodian prime minister, Lon Nol, replaces Sihanouk as head of Cambodia's government. -
Invasion of cambodia
The Cambodian campaign was a brief series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia in 1970 by South Vietnam and the United States as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. -
Cooper Church Amendment.
The Cooper–Church Amendment was introduced in the United States Senate during the Vietnam War. The amendment sought to cut off all funding to American war efforts in Cambodia. Its proposal was the first time that Congress had restricted the deployment of troops during a war against the wishes of the president. -
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Operation Jefferson Glenn
Operation Jefferson Glenn ran from 5 September 1970 to 8 October 1971 and was the last major operation in which U.S. ground forces participated during the Vietnam War and the final major offensive in which the 101st Airborne Division fought. -
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Operation Lam Son Invasion of Laos
Operation Lam Son 719 or 9th Route – Southern Laos Campaign was a limited-objective offensive campaign conducted in the southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos. The campaign was carried out by the armed forces of South Vietnam between 8 February and 25 March 1971, during the Vietnam War. -
Last us Combat Battalion
The last U.S. ground combat unit in South Vietnam, the Third Battalion, Twenty-First Infantry, departs for the United States. The unit had been guarding the U.S. air base at Da Nang. This left only 43,500 advisors, airmen, and support troops left in-country. -
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Easter offensive
One result of the offensive was the launching of Operation Linebacker, the first sustained bombing of North Vietnam by the U.S. since November 1968. -
statistics
The most immediate effect of the Vietnam War was the staggering death toll. The war killed an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians, 1.1 million North Vietnamese troops and 200,000 South Vietnamese troops. During the air war, America dropped 8 million tons of bombs between 1965 and 1973. -
Paris peace accords
The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
Saigon falls
The fall of Saigon occurred on April 30, 1975. The loss of the battle of Saigon also marked the fall of South Vietnam entirely. Effectively, the fall of Saigon ended the Vietnam War for all parties invovled and led to the reunification of the country under the communist government of the North