Legacies of the War
In January of 1973 the Paris Accords were signed and the United States withdrew its military forces from Vietnam. Two years later, North Vietnamese troops captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon to end the war. Once the war ended, the Communist leaders of North Vietnam reunited the two halves of the country to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The government then seized control of all farmland and business activities and placed new limitations on the rights of the Vietnamese people. These changes made life very hard in Vietnam, and millions of Vietnamese fled the country to look for a better way of life.
Some of the people who fled the country after North Vietnam's victory in 1975 had...
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