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Write a 8 pages paper on the american debacle in vietnam. Subsequent to the First Indochina War, Vietnam was divided into two separate provinces. Free elections were expected to be held in the year 1956. North Vietnam, which was led by the popular party was Viet Minh, whose leader was Ho Chi Minh and South Vietnam was led by the Ngo Dinh Diem. There were clashes between these two parties and the northern combatants of the Viet Cong waged a guerilla war against the South Vietnamese forces, which were supported by the US (Vietnam War. In Britannica Concise Encyclopedia).

The US deployed more than half a million military personnel into Vietnam. In the year 1968, the forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam perpetrated attacks on thirty – six cities in South Vietnam. This was the well known Tet Offensive. As opposed to the war increased, President Lyndon Johnson decided to launch the de-escalation policy. The leaders of South and North Vietnam were called on for peace talks in Paris. During the period 1969 to 1973, the US withdrew its troops from Vietnam. The war, instead of stopping, spread to Cambodia and Laos by 1970. There was a stalemate in the peace talks, which ended abruptly in 1971. The talks were resumed in 1973 and a truce was established. However, the fighting did not end. Violations of the truce were reported on several occasions. The North Vietnamese invaded the south in 1975 and the south surrendered. By 1976, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam emerged, with the unification of North and South Vietnam. More than two million people lost their lives in the war (Vietnam War. In Britannica Concise Encyclopedia).

Vietnam had been under the rule of France from the mid-1880s to the early 1940s during World War II, and France had made it a colony named French Indochina. In 1940, Japan invaded French Indochina and occupied it. On the 2nd of September 1945, Japan surrendered to the Allies and withdrew its forces from&nbsp.French Indochina.&nbsp.