Fall of Saigon: The Nightmare Begins (TRIH ep 324, part 1)
1973 · 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…
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Around 1973
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)