Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965, few Americans ...

The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the ... s what led up to the war in Vietnam. 1887: France colonizes parts of Southeast Asia, calling it French Indochina, which included ...

In March, we sat down with Dr. Marty Kuhlman, West Texas A&M University Jenny Lind Porter Professor of History, about the ...

For many of the Vietnamese people who settled in the U.S. after the war’s end, its anniversary marks a complex turning point: ...

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on April 30 ... sympathizers who had battled the French during the First Indochina War). Their relocation was part of a political bargain ...

The North Vietnamese came south in a wave. It was unbelievable how quickly things happened," recalled Maj. James Kean, an ...