US Air Force/Navy bombers remained for abit. When they left (and the NVA knew it) the NVA invaded the south with a combined tank/infantry assault. They successfully captured the south on 30 April '75.
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There are a number of things that happened after the US pulled out of Vietnam. One of the negative impacts was the collapse of Army of the Republic of South Vietnam.
President Eisenhower sent US troops to Vietnam in 1955, President Ford pulled out the last US troops in 1975.
It was president Richard Nixon who finally pulled all U.S troops from Vietnam.
Saigon fell to the people's Army of Vietnam on April 30, 1975 and the US troops came home. A provisional government was established by the Viet Cong, a mass exodus of refugees began, and Vietnam was reunified into a communist state.
No more North & South Vietnam; just Vietnam.
In keeping with his pre-election promise, President Nixon began the first phase of troop withdrawals in 1969.