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 .

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 marked the end of a Vietnam divided into the communist North and U.S.-allied South, and the country's top official told crowds the past decades had led to ever ...