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Today, the war continues to haunt global affairs. To mark the anniversary, which the Trump administration has explicitly directed U.S.
diplomats in Vietnam not to commemorate, we're sharing essays on the legacies of the war and how it continues to shape foreign policy. Fifty years ago on Wednesday, North Vietnamese forces took Saigon's presidential palace, marking the end of the Vietnam War—a two-decade-long conflict that shaped the second half of the 20th century. The American War, as it's called in Vietnam, led to the deaths of millions of Vietnamese people and more than 50,000 U.
S. troops. Arguably the first forever war, it is widely remembered as one of Washington's greatest foreign-policy disasters.
Fifty years ago on Wednesday, North Vietnamese forces took Saigon's presidential palace, marking the end of the Vietnam War—a...
Chloe Hadavas , Chloe Hadavas.
