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1955
begin of civil war between the norht and the south vietnamese. -
the fall of saigon
The captial of saigon south vietnam fail to the communiests and cost the the wave of immigrant to immigrate to the USA -
1975 boat travel
During people from Vietnam travel on a boat with lots of people, and many people die trying to escape the country. -
Second wave
In 1977, a second wave of Vietnamese refugees began fleeing Vietnam. This wave of emigration lasted until the mid 1980s. The second wave began as a result of the new Communist government’s implementation of economic, political and agricultural policies based on Communist ideology. -
boat people
about 50,000 boat people were admitted, and about 80,000 more in a continuous migration between 1982 and 1991. -
Success
In 1997, Vietnamese owned 97,764 businesses employing 79,035 people with $9.3 billion in sales.
