Paris Peace Accords Of 1973 Essay
Introduction
The Paris Peace Accords and the Vietnam War were some of the most important events to have taken place in world history. This paper will present an attempt to break the Paris Peace Accords down into its constituent parts. This will be done by analysing its setting, the negotiation process, as well as its successes and failures.
Setting
The Paris Peace Accords of 1973 was an agreement that was aimed at bringing peace to Vietnam by putting an end to the Vietnam War. It put an end to undeviating US military warfare and briefly put an end to the conflict between North and South Vietnam (Zagare 1977: 665). “The governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, the United States as well as the interim Revolutionary government that symbolized the native South Vietnamese revolutionaries; all signed the agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam on January 27, 1973” (Zagare 1977: 665).
In 1969 the amount of U.S. troops present in Vietnam amounted to more than 475 000. Furthermore by this time more than 48 000 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives in the war. Each week an estimated amount of two hundred soldiers …show more content…
Therefore National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger was instructed by Nixon to start secret peace talks with the North Vietnamese that would not include or be made known of to the South Vietnamese nor the American military allies in Vietnam (Llewellyn et al 2016), something which later backfired for the Americans and almost caused the entire negotiation process to be unsuccessful. Although the talks were secret it was not unusual for a series of secret talks to be associated with public talks. The reasoning behind the secret nature of these peace talks was that some of the subject matter was so sensitive that if they were to be revealed to the public, all of the negotiations would be
The Paris Peace Accords and the Vietnam War were some of the most important events to have taken place in world history. This paper will present an attempt to break the Paris Peace Accords down into its constituent parts. This will be done by analysing its setting, the negotiation process, as well as its successes and failures.
Setting
The Paris Peace Accords of 1973 was an agreement that was aimed at bringing peace to Vietnam by putting an end to the Vietnam War. It put an end to undeviating US military warfare and briefly put an end to the conflict between North and South Vietnam (Zagare 1977: 665). “The governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, the United States as well as the interim Revolutionary government that symbolized the native South Vietnamese revolutionaries; all signed the agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam on January 27, 1973” (Zagare 1977: 665).
In 1969 the amount of U.S. troops present in Vietnam amounted to more than 475 000. Furthermore by this time more than 48 000 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives in the war. Each week an estimated amount of two hundred soldiers …show more content…
Therefore National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger was instructed by Nixon to start secret peace talks with the North Vietnamese that would not include or be made known of to the South Vietnamese nor the American military allies in Vietnam (Llewellyn et al 2016), something which later backfired for the Americans and almost caused the entire negotiation process to be unsuccessful. Although the talks were secret it was not unusual for a series of secret talks to be associated with public talks. The reasoning behind the secret nature of these peace talks was that some of the subject matter was so sensitive that if they were to be revealed to the public, all of the negotiations would be