In 1967, he ran successfully for president of South Vietnam and held that position until the fall of Saigon, South Vietnam's capital, became imminent in 1975. Just prior to the Communist victory ...

In the years since the fall of Saigon, over 40,000 Vietnamese ... the “DMZ,” which once separated North and South Vietnam. These munitions continue to inflict almost weekly injury and death ...

Near the end of the war in Vietnam, an American-built Northrop F-5 fighter in South Vietnamese markings dropped bombs on the South Vietnamese Independence ...

South Vietnam was a capitalist republic led by Ngo ... it was likely that the neighbouring one would also fall – similar to a row of dominoes falling over. This had happened in Eastern Europe ...

After almost two decades of fighting and millions of lives lost, the Vietnam war came to an end in 1975. Hardly anyone ...

This was the belief that if one country fell to communism, it was likely that the neighbouring one would also fall. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam. They decided to ...