Cika wannan jumlar: A ranar 2 ga Yuli, 1976, Arewa da Kudancin Vietnam sun haɗu don samar da Jamhuriyar Socialist ta Viet Nam. Yaƙin ya bar Vietnam ta lalace, tare da jimillar mutuwar tsakanin 966,000 da miliyan 3.8. Wani kwamiti na Majalisar Dattijan Amurka na 1974 ya kiyasta kusan fararen hula miliyan 1.4 na Vietnam sun mutu ko suka ji rauni tsakanin 1965 da 1974<unk>ciki har da 415,000 da aka kashe. Bayan haka, a karkashin gwamnatin Lê Duẩn, babu kisan gillar da aka yi wa 'yan Kudancin Vietnam da suka yi aiki tare da Amurka ko gwamnatin Kudancin Vietnam ta Kudu, wanda ke damun' yan kasashen yamma, amma har zuwa 'yan Kudancin Vietnam 300,000 aka tura su zuwa sansanonin sake farfadowa, inda mutane da yawa suka jimre wa azabtarwa, yunwa, da cututtuka yayin da aka tilasta musu yin aiki. Gwamnati ta fara kamfen na gama gari na gonaki da masana'antu. A cikin 1978, don mayar da martani ga gwamnatin Khmer Rouge ta Kambodiya da ke ba da umarnin kashe-kashen mazauna Vietnam a ƙauyukan kan iyaka a gundumomin An Giang da Kiên Giang, sojojin Vietnam
sun mamaye Kambodiya kuma sun cire su daga mulki bayan sun mamaye Phnom Penh. Wannan shiga tsakani ya yi nasara, wanda ya haifar da kafa sabuwar gwamnatin gurguzu mai goyon bayan Vietnam, Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Kampuchea, wacce ta yi mulki har zuwa 1989. Wannan, duk da haka, ya tsananta dangantaka da China, wanda ya goyi bayan Khmer Rouge. China daga baya ta kaddamar da wani ɗan gajeren lokaci a arewacin Vietnam a shekarar 1979, wanda ya sa Vietnam ta dogara sosai kan taimakon tattalin arziki da na soja na Soviet, yayin da rashin amincewa da gwamnatin kasar Sin ya fara ƙaruwa.