The Vietnam War Explained in 17 Minutes

The Vietnam War explained in 17 minutes: an animated history of the war in Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh in 1945 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. This Vietnam War documentary covers Dien Bien Phu, the Gulf of Tonkin, the battle of Ia Drang, the Tet Offensive, Vietnamization, the Paris Peace Accords and Operation Frequent Wind, the fall of Saigon helicopter evacuation. The Vietnam War explained simply, as American history and Cold War history in one animated documentary: Ho Chi Minh and the French, Dien Bien Phu and Geneva, Kennedy and the advisers, the Gulf of Tonkin and Red Beach at Da Nang, the battle of Ia Drang and the Tet Offensive, Nixon and Vietnamization, the Paris Peace Accords, the 1975 Saigon offensive and the Saigon evacuation from the roof at 22 Gia Long Street. A history of the Vietnam War for anyone who wants the whole American war in Vietnam in one animated history: Ho Chi Minh, Dien Bien Phu, the Gulf of Tonkin, Ia Drang, the Tet Offensive, Operation Frequent Wind and the fall of Saigon helicopter, from the first Marines to the last helicopter of 1975. The opening question: in 1965 the first US combat troops walked onto Red Beach to win. Ten years later a line of people climbed a ladder to one small helicopter. How did the strongest army on earth end up on that roof? 0:00 A ladder on a Saigon rooftop 0:22 Ho Chi Minh and Dien Bien Phu 2:35 Diem, Kennedy and Ap Bac 4:53 Tonkin Gulf and Red Beach 7:06 Ia Drang: LZ X-Ray and Albany 8:25 Half a million men and Tet 10:49 Nixon, My Lai and Paris 13:28 The last spring of 1975 14:40 Frequent Wind: the roof 15:59 What the war cost Sources: Stanley Karnow. Vietnam: A History (1983) George C. Herring. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (1979) Jack Shulimson and Charles M. Johnson. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Landing and the Buildup, 1965 (USMC History and Museums Division, 1978) George R. Dunham and David A. Quinlan. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Bitter End, 1973-1975 (1990) U.S. National Archives. Statistical Information about Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War #vietnamwar #fallofsaigon #history Photos and footage (Wikimedia Commons): Mztourist, CC BY-SA 3.0