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- - - - Détente slowed down in the late 1970s with both the US and USSR having different visions of what is was as well as Nixon being succeeded by Carter and Kennedy who increased military buildup
  - - - This escalated further to two secret visits done by Henry Kissinger in 1971 as well as the pushing of the PRC into the UN and the security council
        
        Nixon became the first US president to visit Communist China while in office in 1972
- - - - In return, the North Vietnamese agreed to release all U.S. and other prisoners of war.
        
        When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75% of South Vietnam's territory. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped with U.S. weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid after the cease-fire.
        
        Each side held that military operations were justified by the other side's violations of the cease-fire.
        
        What resulted was an almost endless chain of retaliations. During the period between the initiation of the cease-fire and the end of 1973, there were an average of 2,980 combat incidents per month in South Vietnam.
- - - - Nixon tried to Vietnamize the war and gradually reduce US involvement by propping up the south through military and economic aid
- - - - Negotiated the Paris Peace Accords that ended direct US involvement in Vietnam
      - Opened relations with the USSR for Nixon to eventually visit in 1972 after Kissinger's own secret trip in 1971
      - Helped engineer an era of détente between the USSR and USA which started disarmament and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks (SALT)
      - Negotiations were kept secret due to them not wanting Thieu and the south Vietnamese government to feel the US were about to abandon them.
- - - - Summer 1973 - Congress prohibiting any US military operations in Indochina, Nixon tried to overturn this and failed
      - Watergate led to Nixon's resignation
      - No future president was prepared to give the type of commitment and aid that Nixon and the past presidents had, hence the subsequent fall of the south occured
        
        North and South were unified in April 1975
        
        Late 1974, North planned an offensive that they calculated would take two years
        
        Campaign started in December in highlands and moved at rapid succession to be able to cut down the suggested time to 55 days.