U.S. Congress passes the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act

The final phase of the U.S. evacuation began as aircraft carried U.S. personnel and Vietnamese evacuees from Saigon. The evacuation foregrounded the unequal choices created by war: some had access...

North Vietnamese forces entered Saigon as the Republic of Vietnam surrendered. The event ended the war and the division created after Geneva. For many Vietnamese it meant national reunification; it...

People’s Army of Vietnam tanks entered the presidential palace, and President Dương Văn Minh announced surrender. In Vietnam, the date is commemorated as reunification and liberation; many former...

UNHCR records the arrival in May 1975 of the first boat carrying 47 people to Malaysia. This early flight began a prolonged regional refugee movement shaped by war’s end, state change, political...

Cambodian forces seized the U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez and its crew in the Gulf of Thailand. The U.S. military rescue operation that followed came days after Saigon’s fall and showed how conflict...

The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act funded the resettlement of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao refugees in the United States. The law responded to displacement caused by decades of war...

The monarchy ended and the Lao PDR was established following a political transition led by the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party. Laos had endured years of secret bombing, civil war, and displacement...

Voters elected a single National Assembly for the reunified state. The election formalized political reunification after the 1975 victory and preceded the proclamation of the Socialist Republic of...

Voters across Vietnam participated in the first nationwide election since reunification. The election created a common legislature for the formerly divided country, though political competition...

The new National Assembly convened to establish state institutions for a unified Vietnam. Deputies debated formal reunification and the country’s name, marking a transition from wartime provisional...