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1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched the Spring Offensive in March; the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was quickly defeated. The North Vietnamese captured Saigon on April 30, accepting the surrender of South Vietnam. In the final days of the war, the ...
The fall of Saigon [9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the collapse of the South Vietnamese state, leading to a transition period and the formal reunification of Vietnam into the ...
1975 Araguaia Guerrilla War: Brazilian military government: Communist Party of Brazil: 1967 1975 Cambodian Civil War. Part of the Vietnam War. National United Front of Kampuchea Khmer Rouge North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Republic United States South Vietnam: 1967 1967 Machurucuto raid Venezuela Cuba: 1967 Ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency India
The 1975 spring offensive (Vietnamese: chiến dịch mùa Xuân 1975), officially known as the general offensive and uprising of spring 1975 (Vietnamese: Tổng tiến công và nổi dậy mùa Xuân 1975), was the final North Vietnamese campaign in the Vietnam War that led to the capitulation of Republic of Vietnam.
Operation New Life (23 April – 1 November 1975) was the care and processing on Guam of Vietnamese refugees evacuated before and after the Fall of Saigon, the closing day of the Vietnam War. More than 111,000 of the evacuated 130,000 Vietnamese refugees were transported to Guam, where they were housed in tent cities for a few weeks while being ...
Date duration Operation name Unit(s) – description Location VC-PAVN KIAs Allied KIAs Apr 3 – 26: Operation Babylift [1]: Mass evacuation/airlift of orphans from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 [A 1] – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies.
A 1975 US Senate subcommittee estimated around 1.4 million civilian casualties in South Vietnam because of the war, including 415,000 deaths. An estimate by the Department of Defense after the war gave a figure of 1.2 million civilian casualties, including 195,000 deaths. [ 1 ]