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The fall of Saigon [9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. This decisive event led to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the evacuation of thousands of U.S. personnel and South Vietnamese civilians, and marked the end of the Vietnam War .
Minutes of President Gerald Ford's National Security Council meeting on 9 April 1975 when evacuation plans were extensively discussed. Planning for the evacuation of the Americans and their South Vietnamese allies from South Vietnam had begun before April 1975.
They said that evacuation of Americans from Saigon was being resisted by Ambassador Graham Martin and other senior officials. [3]: 126–7 16 April. The Foreign Ministry of North Vietnam announced that it would create "no difficulty or obstacles" to a U.S. evacuation of South Vietnam provided it was done "immediately.". [3]: 126–7 17 April
The Vietnam Humanitarian Assistance and Evacuation Act of 1975 (H.R. 6096) was U.S. congressional legislation that proposed to designate financial resources for the evacuation and humanitarian aid of South Vietnam preceding the Fall of Saigon. The Act was not passed, however, it began the debate in Congress over how best to evacuate Vietnam and ...
Forty years later, the images remain searing: Throngs of desperate South Vietnamese civilians trying to scale the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.
Though Minh died before the Fall of Saigon in 1975, the People's Army was victorious. The North succeeded in uniting Vietnam in 1976, and Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
A Babylift flight arrives at San Francisco, 5 April 1975. Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other Western countries (including Australia, France, West Germany, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War (see also the Fall of Saigon), on 3–26 April 1975.
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 ...