In what year did the Vietnam War end?

In what year did the Vietnam War end? The answer is 1975.

The war ended on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. President Dương Văn Minh announced the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese forces, and communist forces took control of key government buildings, including the Presidential Palace. The event was widely known at the time as the Fall of Saigon.

The United States had already withdrawn its ground combat forces under the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, although fighting between North and South Vietnam continued. The final collapse came during North Vietnam’s rapid 1975 spring offensive. A large evacuation, Operation Frequent Wind, removed American personnel and many South Vietnamese civilians by helicopter.

A common mix-up is 1973, the year the Paris Peace Accords led to the withdrawal of U.S. troops. The conflict itself continued for two more years. Vietnam was formally reunified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976, but that political reunification followed the war’s military end in 1975.