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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Around 1975
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)