Question

Once the peace treaty was signed in Paris, which of the following was to take place? The United States would withdraw within a year. The United States agreed to fight for South Vietnam until a change in leadership happened. Free elections were to take place in South Vietnam. The United States would put a temporary government in South Vietnam until a democracy could be fully established.

Answer 1

The United States would withdraw within a year.

Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A) the United States would retreat within a year.

Once the peace treaty was signed in Paris, what took place was that the United States would retreat within a year.

On January 27, 1973, the United States signed a peace treaty in Paris, France, with North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong. The treaty formally ended the hostilities in Vietnam and initiated a period of peace. However, South Vietnam presented a separated document where they did not include the Viet Cong. As part of the treaty, the United States agreed to withdraw all its troops in the next 60 days and dismantle all the bases. In return, North Vietnam would release all American prisoners.