North Vietnam's final offensive
1975 · Event
Two years after the Americans left, a probing attack in the Central Highlands turns into a rout: the South's army disintegrates so fast that a campaign Hanoi planned to take two years is over in fifty-five days. It ends with tanks in the grounds of the presidential palace and the last helicopters lifting off the embassy roof.
On these timelines: The Vietnam War, Southeast Asia, Master, Cold War
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