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1. Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam with a population of 10 million people (Vietnam.com, Getting to Know Ho Chi Minh City, people, first paragraph).
2. Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, was taken by the PAVN on April 30, 1975, and the Second Indochina War ended.
3. Saigon was the center for most if not all of the news agencies that were covering the war in South Vietnam.
4. Saigon is the former name of the capital of the former South Vietnam, where a large number of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants originate.
5. Saigon is a municipality at the same level as Vietnam's provinces. (Web site)

Hue

1. Less than a month after Hue, Saigon fell and the nation of South Vietnam ceased to exist. (Web site)
2. The first monk was 66-year-old Thich Quang Duc, who drove all the way from Hue to Saigon to commit suicide on June 11, 1963. (Web site)

Cholon

1. It was not only the official Saigon what was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1976 but Cholon, Gia Dinh and Saigon.

Saigon Region

1. Diem then moved south to the Saigon region to live with Thuc.

Former Saigon

1. Nevertheless, the city does not seem as crowded as Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon.

Saigon Area

1. U2 - A spy plane located in Saigon area used to photograph SAM sites, etc., in North Vietnam during the early part of the Vietnam War. (Web site)
2. The French arrived in the Saigon area in force in 1859. (Web site)
3. Instead the child seems a kind of prisoner of war while resting in an orphanage in the Saigon area recently. (Web site)

Last Americans

1. Operation "Frequent Wind," the emergency evacuation of the last Americans in Saigon was under way.
2. Two years later, the last Americans were evacuated from Saigon as Communist forces launched their final triumphant offensive into South Vietnam.

Downtown Saigon

1. At approximately 0830, 30 April 1975, Operation "Frequent Wind" ended when Marine CH-46s carried the last Marines off the Embassy roof in downtown Saigon.
2. As British and French troops reoccupied downtown Saigon, the Binh XuYen took up defensive positions along the southern and western edges of the city.

Bien Hoa

1. Since the 50s, Vovinam was introduced and expanded in Saigon, and other provinces around it, such as Gia Dinh, Bien Hoa, Da Lat. (Web site)

Saigon River

1. The city is bathed by many rivers, arroyos and canals, the biggest river being the Saigon River.

North Vietnamese Tanks

1. At the same time, North Vietnamese tanks had reached Bien Hoa and turned toward Saigon, brushing aside isolated ARVN units along the way. (Web site)

Little Saigon

1. The borders of Little Saigon can be considered to be Trask and McFadden on the north and south and Euclid and Magnolia on the east and west, respectively.
2. March 2008: Ended a one-month hunger strike waged outside San Jose City Hall after the city let "Little Saigon" signs grace a Story Road retail strip.
3. A family owned and operated restaurant, Little Saigon has won praises from the Phoenix community for great food at great prices.

American Aid

1. Historians have directly attributed the fall of Saigon in 1975 to the cessation of American aid. (Web site)

Saigon Government

1. In most of South Vietnam the NLF had genuine roots in the villages; it had a much closer relationship with the people than the Saigon Government did. (Web site)
2. Removal of American aid would have collapsed the Saigon government. (Web site)
3. For as early as 1956 the Saigon government issued a communique reaffirming its ownership of the Paracels and the Spratlys. (Web site)

Cold War

1. The fall of Saigon in 1975 was the worst defeat that the United States suffered during the Cold War. (Web site)

Foreigners

1. The Saigon government used foreigners in combat; the NLF did not. (Web site)

Family

1. The last Americans I saw in Vietnam were those who evacuated my family before Saigon fell.
2. After the fall of Saigon, Pham Duy and his family moved to the United States where he settled in Midway City, California.
3. The family fled from Saigon in 1975, after learning that the communist regime was heading toward South Vietnam.

Settling

1. Meanwhile, political affairs in Saigon were finally settling down (at least as far as the Americans were concerned}.

Aftermath

1. Dozens of helicopters flew onshore to rescue thousands who would have fallen victim to the aftermath of the fall of Saigon, McGaugh said. (Web site)

Gen

1. As the North Vietnamese forces closed on the approaches to Saigon, the politburo in Hanoi issued an order to Gen. (Web site)

Buddhists

1. Buddhists in Hue took over the local radio station and joined the Struggle Movement in opposition to the Saigon government. (Web site)

Six Years

1. Six years later, communist forces took Saigon.

Corps

1. The operation was commanded by Thi, who had travelled into the Saigon from I Corps, and Ky. (Web site)

Broadway

1. Miss Saigon was part of the major European influence on Broadway in the 1980s, along with the musicals Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Misérables.

Honor

1. Saigon was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City in honor of the former president of North Vietnam.
2. The former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, after the Fall of Saigon, was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City in his honor. (Web site)
3. The ceremony will honor the people of Vietnam as well as the crew of the USS Midway and their participation in the events during the Fall of Saigon.

Kim

1. Lea gained international stardom for her award-winning lead role as Kim on Broadway in the 1991 production of Miss Saigon. (Web site)
2. Her voice is very similar in style to the character "Kim" in Miss Saigon, and in fact one of her ballads "Woman" is very much in the same vein as that show.

Referendum

1. American support for the Saigon government continued even after Bao Dai was deposed, in a referendum on Oct.

Jay-Z

1. April 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 pm I thought the “come on baby” remix with Jay-z would be a big hit for saigon.

Corrupt

1. Over the next 32 months, Saigon had nine new governments and a change of cabinet every 15 weeks -- all incompetent, corrupt, and ineffective.

Exile

1. The exile of some millions of Vietnamese refugees after the fall of Saigon in 1975 gave birth to a new type of music outside of Vietnam. (Web site)

Highway

1. PAVN forces reached Xuan Loc, a strategic gateway situated on the highway into Saigon, on 9 April.
2. The goal of the operation was to take over Saigon from two directions, Central Highland and coastal no.1 highway. (Web site)

Republic

1. After the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the PRG in theory assumed power as the Republic of South Vietnam but in practice had no authority at all.
2. In 1971, during the rainy season, I was sitting in a room in an old-fashioned French hotel in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam. (Web site)

Troops

1. The British commander of Southeast Asia, Lord Mountbatten, sent over 20,000 troops of the 20th Indian division under General Douglas Gracey to occupy Saigon.

Fighting

1. By March 1975 South Vietnamese morale had collapsed, and in April the communist forces took Saigon with only a limited amount of fighting.
2. The fighting within Saigon itself was pretty much over by February 5th but it carried on in Cholon until the last week of the month. (Web site)
3. The fighting was especially savage in Saigon, South Vietnam's capital, and in Hue. (Web site)

Provincial Capital

1. Chi Nam's real land, is renamed the province of New South Vietnam, with New Saigon being the provincial capital.

Kennedy

1. Kennedy wanted to give the Saigon Government a chance to succeed.

End

1. By the end of the year Saigon had received $500 million in military aid.

Capital City

1. Bien Hoa grew into a major suburb of Saigon (later renamed Ho Chi Minh City) as the capital city of South Vietnam grew.

Washington

1. By that time, tempers were frayed in Washington as well as in Saigon.
2. Born in Saigon, he left Vietnam with his family at the age of six in 1975, settling in Bellevue, Washington (an Eastside suburb of Seattle).
3. The term was used by Washington and Saigon as a means of measuring the progress of the war. (Web site)

Surrendering

1. South Vietnam's capital was Saigon which was renamed Ho Chi Minh City on May 1, 1975 after unconditionally surrendering to the North.
2. South Vietnam's capital was Saigon which was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City on May 1, 1975 after unconditionally surrendering to the North. (Web site)

Lodge

1. After the collapse of several international attempts to find a political solution in Vietnam, Lodge left Saigon in June 1967. (Web site)
2. On August 24, the Kennedy administration sent Cable 243 to Lodge in Saigon, marking a change in American policy.

Intention

1. On February 19, 1965, several dissident South Vietnamese Generals moved their battalions into Saigon with the intention of ousting General Nguyen Khanh.
2. On February 19, 1965, several dissident South Vietnamese Generals moved their batallions into Saigon with the intention of ousting General Nguyen Khanh.

Countryside

1. To counteract the NLF's success in the countryside, Washington and Saigon launched an ambitious and deadly military effort in the rural areas. (Web site)

Outskirts

1. Frequent Wind continued around the clock, as North Vietnamese tanks breached defenses on the outskirts of Saigon.
2. The helicopter evacuation continued all day and night while PAVN tanks reached the outskirts of Saigon. (Web site)

Capture

1. Under the command of General Dung, the NVA sets out to capture Saigon by late April, in advance of the rainy season. (Web site)
2. On 23 March the Communist military commanders were given orders from Hanoi to capture Saigon with all possible speed.
3. The operational plan for the Ho Chi Minh Campaign called for the capture of Saigon before May 1.

Overthrow

1. The family gave Ton That Dinh a command to the north of Saigon so that it could block any attempt to overthrow the Government from that direction. (Web site)
2. The DRV leadership, however, remained committed to the expulsion of all U.S. troops from Vietnam and to the overthrow of the Saigon government. (Web site)

Three Weeks

1. Diem's death was followed by a period of great political instability in Saigon, while three weeks after the coup Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. (Web site)
2. It took three weeks for U.S. troops to dislodge 1000 NLF fighters from Saigon. (Web site)
3. Three weeks later, the British were helping to re-establish French rule and forced the Vietminh out of Saigon.

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