Black Hole Sun
12 years ago
Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Fall of Saigon (1975)
NOTE: This video replaces the former one that is no longer available. For this reason, not all of the comments already posted may seem relevant to the new content. NOTE FOR THE ORIGINAL VIDEO CLIP: This short clip does a nice job not only of discussing the Fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) but also of providing an overview of the entire war. Based on our study of the Vietnam War, is there anything that wasn't mentioned that you feel should be included? Do keep in mind that this is meant to be a brief summary of the war. (I apologize for the sound fade at the end. In short, you hear that Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese in 1975).
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4 comments:
Maybe if Nixon hadn't been so adament about ending with honor, many more American lives could have been saved
A.W.
3rd, Period
I Think it was a good thing to pull our teoops out even though we knew the war was not over yet. I think if we kept our troops in the war would never stop because the Soviets Union would just keep suppling them till every US troop was dead and the US would be defensless against any outside attack.
Taylor Robinson
How could we lose saigon when we have such a powerful military why didnt we just send in all our forces?
Jack
I thought this video was overall a good one to explain the Vietnam War in a very short time. I think that President Nixon could have used a lot less power to finish the war with less consequences.
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