South Viet pilots flew their families onto US aircraft carriers. Folks without aircraft utilized boats and ships, and set their course across the sea.
A refugee or the boat people.
Vietnam, obviously.
There are several floating shanty towns in some harbors in Vietnam. The residents of these floating towns are referred to as boat people since they are technically living on a boat.
They believed the communist conquerer's were going to slaughter them.
he did not leave his boat
Those that survived the journey live in other lands now.
The media at the time referred to them as "boat people" since they arrived by ships and boats. "Ship People" just didn't come out right.
There was a exodus of Vietnamese people called the boat people to Australia and New Zealand.
fear of being killed.
Because they didn't have enough time to leave Vietnam during the Vietnam War
It forced French troops to leave Vietnam and divided Vietnam into two countries. (A)
they are either known as refugees or asylum seekers