Fall of Saigon: The Nightmare Begins (TRIH eps 324-325)
1975 · Resource
This episode (part one of a two-part series) analyzes the lead-up to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. Holland and Sandbrook sketch the geopolitical and domestic context: the legacy of French colonialism, the defeat at Dien Bien Phu, the Paris Peace Accords (1973), Nixon-era bombing and Cambodian incursions, and the political effects of Watergate that constrained later US responses (Case–Church Amendment and the War Powers Resolution). They track the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong offensives...
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- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
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- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
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