War ends in Saigon as Dương Văn Minh orders surrender

The final campaign toward Saigon began. Vietnamese revolutionary forces coordinated military operations with political action in a bid to end the divided state and achieve reunification; civilians...

Dương Văn Minh assumed the presidency as the Republic of Vietnam faced imminent defeat. He later called for a ceasefire and surrender, seeking to prevent further destruction in the capital.

U.S. helicopters began evacuating embassy personnel and selected Vietnamese and foreign nationals as North Vietnamese forces approached. Many Vietnamese who had worked with the United States could not...

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...

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 act funded resettlement in the United States for refugees displaced from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It created an initial legal and material response to mass displacement, while refugee...

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...