1975: Vietnam

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In South Vietnam, for 16 years the symbol of the United States' policy of containment of Communism in Asia, a brilliant North Vietnamese military offensive finally ended the long civil war. Saigon's 1.1 million-man military establishment disintegrated in a humiliating rout, and millions of... ...