Fall of Saigon
Context
- Withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan is being compared to the Fall of Saigon.
About
- The Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon by North Vietnamese, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) on 30 April 1975.
- The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- The city was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City, after the late North Vietnamese President Hồ Chí Minh.
- The capture of the city was preceded by Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of almost all American civilian and military personnel in Saigon, along with tens of thousands of South Vietnamese civilians who had been associated with the Republic of Vietnam.
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