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The capital, Saigon.
South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam is what ended the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese had the goal of Vietnamese Unification and the surrender of South Vietnam in 1975 allowed them to achieve that objective.
1975 and reverse the statement.
April 30th 1975 ; Saigon fell to the communists .
The fall of Saigon occurred on April 30, 1975.
NVA tanks crashed thru their gates and accepted their surrender on 30 April 1975.
From 1954 to 1975, Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel. In April, 1975, North Vietnam troops accepted the surrender of South Vietnam from its president, thereby unifying Vietnam into a single country.
At the South Vietnam Presidential Palace compound in Saigon on April 30, 1975 when North Vietnamese communist forces accepted the surrender of South Vietnam.
South Vietnam was overrun in 1975, ending the Vietnam War. The forces of North Vietnam captured Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) on April 30, 1975 and the republic was officially unified on July 2, 1976.
1. Started in 1964. 2. Caused because of the Domino Theory. 3. North Vietnam was Communist, and South Vietnam was not. 4. Southeast Vietnam.
Hours after Japan's surrender in World War II, Vietnamese communist Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of Vietnam from France.
The main problem between North and South Vietnam was the agreement between both parties that South Vietnam should have elections shortly after the forming of the country. No elections were ever held in South Vietnam, if they had been, the country would have been unified much earlier without the many thousands of deaths caused by the war.