Outcome of the Vietnam War
The outcome of the war, for South Vietnam, was very disheartening. North Vietnam had led many attacks on the South, which they had won. South Vietnam was in distress, and asking for help from the United States. The US Congress denied, and the South Vietnamese people went into panic. South Vietnam’s resistance collapsed, and North Vietnamese troops marched into Saigon, South Vietnam’s capital, on April 30, 1975. North Vietnam reunited Vietnam under communist rule, and renamed Saigon to be Ho Chi Minh City. US casualties during their involvement were more than 50,000 dead, more than 400,000 South Vietnamese people died, and the total North Vietnamese and Viet Cong deaths were over 900,000.