U.S. Congress authorizes refugee resettlement assistance

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 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 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...

The National Assembly declared the unified country the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Reunification followed decades of anti-colonial struggle and war, while postwar reconstruction, political...