Explanation: North Vietnamese troops accepted the surrender of Saigon and snuffed out the Republic of Vietnam, humiliating Washington in the process. Saigon, within 24 hours, had become HoChi Minh City.
Military engagements during the Vietnam War. The Fall of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.
The pentagon papers is a report of the Department of Defense detailing the involvement of the United States' military on Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were first brought to public by the New York Times in 1971. The papers showed that the Johnson administration had lied about the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War.
