Annexation of South Vietnam

Date: July 2, 1976 • Location: Hanoi, Viet Nam

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1975–1976.

End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, was formed on 8 June 1969, by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, as an armed rival government opposing the Republic of Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Delegates of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, as well as several smaller groups, participated in its creation.