As the final part of their 1975 spring offensive, North Vietnamese forces seized control of South Vietnam’s capital city, Saigon, on April 30, 1975, signaling the end of the war—just over two ...

The new plan will mark the largest shakeup of Vietnam's administrative map since the postwar unification of North and South Vietnam in the late 1970s. It will reduce the country's 63 provincial and ...

This fear led to the war between the North and South of Vietnam, represented by the Soviet Union and the US, respectively. It was ultimately lost by the US. Must Read .

In Vietnam, there were an estimated 1.1 million military deaths on the communist North’s side alone and more than 254,000 on the side of the South Vietnamese republic.

July 21, 1954 – Vietnam signs the Geneva Accords and divides into two countries at the 17th parallel, the Communist-led north and US-supported south. 1957-1963 – North Vietnam and the Viet ...

Vietnam celebrates the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation 50 years ago with a military parade and a focus on a future of peace.

April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the end of South Vietnam and the conclusion of the Vietnam War. The toll it took on both North and South was enormous: 1.1 million ...

For the people of Vietnam, it would be their second Indochina war, coming eleven years after the Viet Minh’s defeat of the French colonial army and the creation of North and South Vietnam ...

The tides of history, the tears of remembrance: Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese military units surged into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, forcibly reuniting the country ...

U.S. officials are not attending the main public event commemorating the end of the Vietnam war in Ho Chi Minh City this week, according to a guest list released by the organizers and seen by NPR.

DES MOINES, Iowa — April 30 marks 50 years since the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, leading to the unification of North and South Vietnam under communist rule.

Pham Ngoc Son is a 69-year-old veteran who was an army truck driver bringing troops and supplies from the north to the south through the Ho Chi Minh trail — the secret route used by North Vietnam.