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    The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam...
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  • Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on...
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    anniversary of the fall of Kabul. Afghanistan portal Battle of Kabul, 1929 Battle of Kabul (1992–1996) Fall of Saigon, Vietnam, 1975 Fall of Phnom Penh...
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    Indochina refugee crisis (category Aftermath of the Vietnam War)
    especially Canada, or elected to return to Vietnam. A few months after the fall of Saigon, American officials realized that more refugees were crossing borders...
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    evacuation during the Fall of Saigon after which the embassy closed permanently. In 1995, the U.S. and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam formally established...
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    battle, at Buôn Ma Thuột in March, was a communist walkover. After the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the PRG moved into government offices there. At the...
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    Kiều Mộng Thu (category Members of the National Assembly (South Vietnam))
    after the Fall of Saigon; however, it was reported that she joined the new regime of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam...
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    Vietnam War (redirect from War of vietnam)
    from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war...
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  • Indians in Vietnam (category Vietnamese people of Indian descent)
    and a Chettiar wife in India. After the Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon or Liberation of the South, the Communist regime confiscated...
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    Little Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn nhỏ or Tiểu Sài Gòn) is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries...
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    adopted the name Saïgon for the city, a westernized form of the traditional Vietnamese name. The current name was given after the Fall of Saigon in 1975, and...
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    Vũ Văn Mẫu (category Prime ministers of South Vietnam)
    in 1954, he moved to Saigon with his family and joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Saigon, where he became the Dean of the Faculty. He was...
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  • to the month after the fall of Saigon, which is the initial scene of the book. The novel was adapted as a television series of the same name, which premiered...
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    and locals at risk of retaliation to the 1975 Fall of Saigon, which saw the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam take Saigon, the South Vietnamese...
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    international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon (renamed to Ho Chi Minh City in 1976), before...
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    John Riordan (banker) (category Fall of Saigon)
    the Fall of Saigon. He is known as the "Oskar Schindler of the Vietnam War". In April 1975, Riordan was an Assistant Manager at Citibank in Saigon (modern-day...
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    Tôn Đức Thắng (category Members of the 2nd Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam)
    succeeded him as president. Most of the real power, however, was vested in Communist Party chief Lê Duẩn. With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the pro-Communist...
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  • and it was amputated in September 1974.: 285–6  In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Loan approached the US Embassy for evacuation, but was refused and...
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    After the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, the PRG formally replaced the Republic of Vietnam to become the nominal and representative government of South...
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    Khánh Ly (category Singers of Vietnamese descent)
    Norodom Stage in Saigon. Mai traveled to the contest by sneaking into the back of transport trucks and hitching a ride from Đà Lạt City to Saigon. She won second...
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    Võ Nguyên Giáp (category Members of the 2nd Politburo of the Workers' Party of Vietnam)
    ignored by official Vietnamese accounts. Soon after the fall of Saigon, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was established. In the new government, Giáp was...
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    Air Vietnam (category Defunct airlines of Vietnam)
    Vietnam War, and until its collapse due to the Fall of Saigon. Air Viet Nam's initial fleet consisted of five Cessna 170s, Douglas DC-3s and Douglas DC-4s...
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    Nguyễn Hữu Hạnh (category Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals)
    played an important role in the Fall of Saigon when he used his authority and influence to facilitate the bloodless surrender of the South Vietnam government...
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    as Deputy Prime Minister of South Vietnam under various prime ministers. He also served as Minister of Internal Affairs of South Vietnam under Prime...
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  • Thuy Trang (category Actresses of Vietnamese descent)
    (ARVN) officer, was tasked with protecting Saigon from communist North Vietnamese army. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, he was forced to leave his family...
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    Nguyễn Văn Lộc (category Prime ministers of South Vietnam)
    editor-in-chief of an underground newspaper called La Lutte. After realizing the communist nature of the Việt Minh, he left and returned to Saigon, publishing...
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    films The Killing Fields, The Gate and First They Killed My Father. Fall of Saigon Fall of Kabul Dunham, George R (1990). U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Bitter...
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    Hòa Hảo (category Factions of the First Indochina War)
    becoming a major autonomous political force in South Vietnam until the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Disbanded by the new government, the Hòa Hảo were oppressed...
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  • Bình Xuyên crime syndicate Battle of Saigon (1968), during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War Fall of Saigon, the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 Lê Văn...
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    rank of captain. He was executed in Saigon by Republic of Vietnam General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan during the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. A photo of the...
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