History GCSE
Ending of the Vietnam War
What Ending of the Vietnam War means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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The closing phase of the Vietnam War, in which US combat forces withdrew after the Paris Peace Accords and North Vietnamese forces took Saigon.
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