The Vietnam War is a highly controversial topic at the best of times. But during their many debates on the subject, Western historians rarely pause to consider how the conflict was seen through the ...

The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The fall of the city marked the end of the South Vietnamese government and ...

April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of South Vietnam to the North Vietnamese Communists. Its ensuing refugee crisis was the beginning of the Vietnamese Diaspora. The panic of flight found ...

1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 – Communists in the north ...

Vietnamese flags fly on the Hien Luong Bridge, with a memorial in the distance, at the former border between North and South Vietnam, Quang Tri province, Feb. 22, 2024. AP photo HO CHI MINH CITY, ...

Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam War, as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha — known to everyone as Mr. Ha ...

Near the end of the war in Vietnam, an American-built Northrop F-5 fighter in South Vietnamese markings dropped bombs on the South Vietnamese Independence Palace shortly before the fall of Saigon.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - April 30 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, when communist-run North Vietnam seized Saigon, then the capital of the U.S.-backed South Vietnam. It sparked a ...