Superdome Vietnam Wall

From 1954 to 1975, the Vietnam conflict escalated from the Communist victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Accords' division of Vietnam to the fall of Saigon. South Vietnam received aid from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, American Military Assistance Advisory Group advisors, and later expanded U.S. military support as Communist pressure, guerrilla war, infiltration along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the formation of the National Liberation Front intensified. Under Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon, U.S. involvement grew from advisory and airmobile operations to combat troop deployments, bombing campaigns, and major ground offensives, while political upheaval included the overthrow of Diem, the assassinations of Kennedy and South Vietnamese officials, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Tet, peace talks in Paris, Vietnamization, antiwar protest, and reductions in troop levels. The war ended after the Paris Peace Accords, the withdrawal of American troops and prisoners' release, renewed North Vietnamese buildup, reduced U.S. aid to South Vietnam, and the 1975 North Vietnamese offensive that culminated in the evacuation of American personnel and the capture of Saigon on April 30.

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