April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an ...

Here’s a look at the Vietnam War. Causes of Vietnam War 1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial ...

Based on a poem sent to Joan Baez by Nina Duschek, “Saigon Bride” is emblematic of ’60s folk music and tells the story of a ...

North Vietnam was communist. South Vietnam was not. North Vietnamese Communists and South Vietnamese Communist rebels, known as the Viet Cong, wanted to overthrow the South Vietnamese government ...

April 30 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Ron Emmons recommends the sites worth visiting to ...

Fundamentally, the war pitted communist North Vietnam and its allies against South Vietnam and its main ally, the United States. But it also involved several other countries. Australia’s involvement ...

That’s when Paris signed the Peace Accords with the North Vietnamese, which allowed them to create a military presence in South Vietnam. “South Vietnam was essentially created at that point ...

including the partitioning of Vietnam into Communist North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and U.S.-aligned South Vietnam. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese ...

Redding photojournalist Hung T. Vu is in Vietnam to witness his home country 50 years after the war ended. Here's how he remembers the events.

and he also gave the South Vietnamese people more time to get out of Vietnam.” But after that, he would be taken by the North. Kept as a prisoner of war for 17 years. See also: HOMETOWN HERO ...