📅 27 January 1973
The United States, Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Republic of Vietnam and Provisional Revolutionary Government signed the agreement. It provided for a ceasefire and U.S. troop withdrawal, but did not...
📅 26 October 1972
U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger publicly said that a peace agreement was near after secret negotiations with Lê Đức Thọ. President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu rejected key terms and the...
📅 12 February 1973
The first group of U.S. prisoners of war was released and flown from Hanoi under the Paris agreement. The operation brought home 591 U.S. prisoners over several weeks; Vietnamese prisoners and missing...
📅 24 March 1972
The United States announced an indefinite suspension of public meetings in Paris. As negotiations stalled, combat and bombing continued; public diplomacy became intertwined with pressure tactics and...
📅 13 December 1972
Negotiations between U.S. and North Vietnamese representatives broke down. Nixon then ordered the massive Linebacker II air campaign, showing how coercive bombing was used as leverage while...
📅 23 January 1973
Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ initialed the text later signed as the Paris Peace Accords. The private negotiations had produced a settlement among Vietnamese parties and the United States, but the...
📅 12 February 1973
Operation Homecoming began with the release of U.S. prisoners from North Vietnam. The National Archives records 591 American prisoners released under the agreement, while Vietnamese detainees and...
📅 17 May 1973
The two negotiators resumed meetings as fighting continued and the ceasefire proved unstable. The U.S. diplomatic record describes the May–June meetings as an unsuccessful effort to reaffirm the...
📅 13 June 1973
The June communiqué attempted to reaffirm implementation of the Paris agreement after continued fighting. The diplomatic effort could not resolve the conflict between the South Vietnamese parties,...
