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A Dictionary of American History
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Paris Peace Accords
Paris Peace Accords On 13 May 1968, the US began meeting with North Vietnamese representatives under Le Duc Tho in Paris to find a settlement for the Vietnam War. US negotiators W. Averell Harriman (May 1968–January 1969) and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (May 1969–1970) failed to win concessions on the main US demand for a total, mutual withdrawal by both US and North Vietnamese forces, which would leave Vietnam permanently divided. By 1971, Richard Nixon had authorized Henry Kissinger to undertake secret negotiations, and by 1972 Kissinger’s “shuttle diplomacy” was bearing fruit. In October 1972, an agreement was reached whereby the North Vietnamese would give up all US prisoners and allow South Vietnam’s president to stay in office; in return, the US agreed to stop bombing North Vietnam, accept Communist participation in South Vietnamese politics, withdraw all US troops, and drop its demand that North Vietnamese troops evacuate the South. Under pressure from renewed US bombing in December, North Vietnam gave its final assent to the October agreement. On 27 January 1973, North Vietnamese and US diplomats signed a ceasefire agreement that ended the fighting and permitted the complete withdrawal of US forces by the year’s end.
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Chicago:
Thomas L. Purvis, "Paris Peace Accords," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed September 19, 2026, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RS3RTAEWVGEILLC&H=1.
MLA:
Purvis, Thomas L. "Paris Peace Accords." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 19 Sep. 2026. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RS3RTAEWVGEILLC&H=1.
Harvard:
Purvis, TL, 'Paris Peace Accords' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 19 September 2026, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RS3RTAEWVGEILLC&H=1.
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