How was the US government pressurised to negotiate an end to the war in Vietnam ?
The US government was pressurised in the following ways to negotiate an end to the war : US had failed to achieve its objectives. The Vietnamese resistance could not be crushed. The US could not get the support of the Vietnamese people. Thousands of young US soldiers had lost their lives. The scenes of the war were shown on the television. There were strong reactions in the US as well as other countries. Writers such as Mary McCarthy and actors like Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam and praised their heroic defence of the country. The scholar Noam Chomsky called the war ‘the greatest threat to peace, to national self-determination, and to international cooperation’. Under above circumstances, a peace-settlement in Paris was signed in January 1974 and war with US came to an end.
