Victory Day (Ngày Chiến thắng), Reunification Day (Ngày Thống nhất), or Liberation Day (Ngày Giải phóng) is a public holiday in Vietnam that marks the occasion when the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) on April 30th 1975 .
This signalled the end of the Vietnam War or sometimes called the American War, known in Vietnamese as Chiến tranh Việt Nam (Vietnam War) or Kháng chiến chống Mỹ ("Resistance War Against America"). It was the start of the transition period towards reunification, which occurred July 2, 1976.
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