Fall of South Vietnam (Fifty Years After) | Ryan Ranch (Closed)

Course Description:

On April 30, 1975, the war in Vietnam ended with the victory of North Vietnam and the unification of the state of Vietnam with its capital in Hanoi. For just the decade of the American military engagement in that war, a reasonable estimate of Vietnamese deaths is 3 million military and civilians, and for the United States, more than 58,000 died or were missing in action. The 50th anniversary of the end of the war is a time for reflection on how the war began, why it lasted so long, and what resulted from such a tremendous cost in lives. The world has changed in the past half-century, and Americans and Vietnamese have adjusted to a new diplomatic and commercial relationship and to their own memories of that terrible war.