Dark Seas. Operation Pocket Money: Nixon’s Bold Naval Blockade of North Vietnam. Posted: June 23, 2025 | Last updated: June 23, 2025. As President Richard Nixon addressed a tense nation on live ...

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago on April 30, 1975, with the departure of the last American helicopter in Saigon and the arrival of North Vietnamese tanks in the city.

On April 30, 1975, South Vietnam unconditionally surrendered to North Vietnam. The communists occupied ... Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to appear on television when he ...

Today, Saigon is called Ho Chi Minh City, named for the first president of North Vietnam, and April 30 is observed in the country as Reunification Day. ...

Victorious North Vietnamese troops on tanks take up positions outside Independence Palace in Saigon on April 30, 1975, the day the South Vietnamese government surrendered, ending the Vietnam War.