1975: The Fall of Saigon

By williab22

  • The Domino Theory

    In 1949 Mao Zedong had taken power in China.

  • The Domino Theory

    "You have a row of dominos set up;you knock down over the first one" Eisenhower said in 1954.

  • The Domino Theory

    When John F. Kennedy was in office in 1961 he saw how Vietnam was proving anti-Communists resolve.

  • The Domino Theory

    In 1963 the number of American military had risen fron 700 to 16,000 in this year.

  • The War Fought on T.V.

    In 1965 a Full-scale intervention when the arrived in Da Nang for combat.

  • A War Fought on T.V.

    In 1968 North Vietnam and Vietcong launched Tet Offensive with a series of attacks during the New Year.

  • A war fought on tv

    1965 first mass demostration with 20,000 people in washington took place and the protests grew in size and militancy.

  • A war fought on tv

    Kissinger started this process called the Vietnamization that was fightingover to South Vietnamese troopss that withdrawed with U.S. forces.

  • A war fought on tv

    So with that withdraw the numbers of soliders went down to 220,000 in 1970.

  • A war fought on tv

    So this Paris Peace Accords stops all fighting and all foregin troops to withdraw from Vietnam in 1973.

  • A War Fought on TV

    In 1975 60 percent of this population was born after a Communits vivtory

  • A homcoming

    Hung Ba Le the first time he fled his country he was hes mom and dad and three siblings on a fishing boat when he was five.

  • 1975 the fall of saigon

    The last of the Americans were heading into Saigon on April 30, 1975 with warships near by the vietnamese were trying to get away.

  • A War Fought On T.V.

    So in 1986 China lead and instituted free-market this was know as "doi moi" less states controled this and more private enterprise.

  • a war fought on tv

    In 1993 Bill Clinton lifted U.S. trade embargo.