Khmer Rouge forces seize the U.S. ship Mayaguez

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...

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...

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...

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...