American ground combat in Vietnam formally ended with the Paris Peace Accords of January 1973. But the war continued between North and South Vietnam for another two years. When did Saigon finally fall?
Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese final offensive on 30 April 1975. The iconic image of the day is the American helicopter evacuation from the U.S. embassy rooftop. Vietnam was formally reunified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976. The Paris Accords (January 1973) ended American military involvement but explicitly did not end the war between the two Vietnams. 15 August is the Korean liberation day, not Vietnamese.
Read the full facts →The Vietnam War was the long civil-international war in Southeast Asia between communist North Vietnam and its Viet Cong allies in the south, and the U.S.-backed government of South Vietnam, fought between 1955 and 1975. It killed approximately 3.4 million people, ended in communist unification of Vietnam, and reshaped post-WWII American foreign policy.
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