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 | | In the fall of 1963, Diem was overthrown and killed in a coup launched by his own generals. | | | The French, however, were unwilling to concede independence and in October drove the Vietminh and other nationalist groups out of the south. | | | There it confronted a new foe, the Khmer Empire, which had once been the most powerful state in the region. |
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| | While some naive and simple-minded critics have claimed that the Communist Party, and Vietnamese in general, did not have the same regard for life and therefore were willing to sustain more losses in a protracted war, the Party understood that it had an ideological commitment to victory from large segments of the Vietnamese population. | | | Almost immediately, Diem claimed that his newly created government was under attack from Communists in the north. | | | The character of the NLF and its relationship to the Communists in Hanoi has caused considerable debate among scholars, anti-war activists, and policymakers. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: History of Vietnam |
| | In 1986 Vietnam, under new leader Nguyen Van Linh, abandoned its attempt to maintain a purely planned economy. | | | In September 2004, the US State Department designated Vietnam a “Country of Particular Concern” because of Vietnam’s “particularly severe violations of religious freedom”. | | | The United States became strongly opposed to Ho Chi Minh who had now re-established the communist party in 1950. |
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| | Vietnam on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Bao Dai government quickly collapsed, and at the end of World War II, the Viet Minh party (the League for the Independence of Vietnam, a coalition of nationalist and Communist groups), headed by Ho Chi Minh, established a republic with its capital at Hanoi. | | | Diem was faced with a war-torn economy and serious political chaos as numerous factions and individuals vied for power. | | | Vietnam's Objective in the South China Sea: National or Regional Security? |
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| | Vietnam Yesterday & Today: History Websites |
| | During the Vietnam War, the John Birch Society reported extensively on how American soldiers were prevented from winning the war, how the U.S. government knowingly abandoned thousands of POW/MIAs, and on other issues. | | | This collection of CIA declassified estimative products is the first such release by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of documents exclusively on the Vietnam war and is one of the largest such releases as of 2005. | | | This very useful site for historical research on the Web provides a section on the Vietnam War that includes information on books and videos, as well as providing maps, oral histories, and essays and papers on various aspects of the war. |
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| | History Matters Search |
| | This site is a “digital library” of thousands of primary documents in American social history from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction. | | | Introduces the activities of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, located in Washington, DC, and its important collections, in addition to presenting interactive exhibitions and providing resources for study of the Holocaust and related subjects. | | | The project creators—Ellis and personnel from American RadioWorks, the Minnesota Public Radio documentary producers—used interviews selected from more than 1,000 oral histories compiled by Duke University’s “Behind the Veil” project, in addition to conducting new interviews. |
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| | A new state constitution was approved in April 1992, reaffirming the central role of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in politics and society, and outlining government reorganization and increased economic freedom. | | | Notwithstanding the 1992 constitution's reaffirmation of the central role of the Communist Party, the National Assembly, according to the constitution, is the highest representative body of the people and the only organization with legislative powers. | | | Political party: Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) with over 2 million members, formerly (1951-76) Vietnam Worker's Party, itself the successor of the Indochinese Communist Party founded in 1930. |
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| | Galbraith also rebuts critics who say that plan would have been dumped by Kennedy, had he lived, as the war effort turned sour in 1964. | | | Newman's analysis, with its dark implications regarding JFK's murder, has been attacked from both mainstream sources and even those on the left. | | | This essay iscusses how the declassified record on Kennedy's Vietnam policy has not been kind to those who vilified Stone for his depiction of the issue in the film JFK. |
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| | Vietnam War History |
| | The book seeks to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical perspective and to offer answers to vital questions. | | | His experiences in the war forced him to question all his assumptions about his country, the nation's leaders and his own sanity. | | | Vietnam War historical information on a U. government key player. |
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| | The Chinese attempted, at the same time, to denationalize the local population. | | | Eventually domestic politics in the United States dictated that the policy towards Vietnam was politically untenable and the Vietnamese were allowed to win the war. | | | The policy to befriend all countries and nations of the world irrespective of their political and social regime has recorded undeniable results. |
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| | History (from Vietnam) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Vietnam was admitted to the United Nations in 1977. | | | Resource on this organization involved in anti-communist campaigns towards a political change in Vietnam. | | | This anti-Communist southern regime was opposed by a growing resistance movement that became known as the Viet Cong. |
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| | The Vietnam War |
| | Some Americans believe that Vietnam was a national policy blunder costing some 58,000 American lives and billions of tax dollars. | | | While our Vietnam War section concentrates on the time period from 1960 to 1975, you will find material on the French involvement as well as the events after the fall of Saigon. | | | The war had ended but the pain and confusion from this misunderstood war remains to this day. |
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| | The reigning Emperor could nominate one of his sons as Heir Apparent before his death, or in his testament. | | | Headed by a government unfriendly to royalty, the US wanted Vietnam to project a new "democratic" face to the world, in image if not reality. | | | France sought to establish a semi-independent state in the south and invited the former Emperor for talks. |
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| | Statistics about the Vietnam War |
| | Politics and People, On Vietnam, Clinton Should Follow a Hero's Advice, Sen. John Kerrey is quoted as saying about Vietnam, there has been "the most extensive accounting in the history of human warfare" of those missing in action. | | | Myth: A disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War. | | | The Vietnam War has been the subject of thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, hundreds of books, and scores of movies and television documentaries. |
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| | History of Vietnam |
| | In 1963, Diem was overthrown and killed by a military coup, leading to the Vietnam war which started in 1964. | | | A political protocol was then signed to reunify the country 2 years after the treaty was signed. | | | Vietnam’s history is a long, exciting and fascinating one, with the oldest archaeological findings showing that people have been living there as far back as about a half million years ago - making them among the very first East Asians who practiced agriculture in that area. |
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| | Seabee History: Vietnam |
| | Instead, all loading operations were carried out from the Haiphong waterfront, and the Seabees were diverted to the south to help their comrades with the construction of the massive refugee camp. | | | This initiated a phase-down program which corresponded to United States troop withdrawals. | | | Although these unique units were physically gone, the common people of Vietnam continued to reap the benefits of their many civic action projects. |
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| | The History Place - Vietnam War |
| | Timeline of World War II in Europe | | | Private home/school non-commercial, non-Internet re-usage only is allowed of any text, graphics, photos, audio clips, other electronic files or materials from The History Place. | | | Copyright © 1999 The History Place™ All Rights Reserved |
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| | Vietnam Travel Information Lonely Planet Destination Guide |
| | Check out what other travellers are saying about Vietnam. | | | Magnificent Halong Bay is undoubtedly the natural wonder of Vietnam, with 3000 or more incredible islands rising from the emerald waters of the Gulf... | | | Ho Chi Minh, meaning 'bringer of light', was one of the fifty or so aliases used by Nguyen Tat Thanh (1890-1969), communist guerrilla fighter and first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. |
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| | History of the Vietnam War - Title Page |
| | South Vietnam was established after the (First) Indochina War between Vietnamese nationalists and French Colonial forces after the close of the Second World War. | | | Even prior to French colonization, Vietnam was subject to invasions by the Chinese and others going back to 500 B.C. Alas, war is no stranger to the Vietnamese people. | | | From 1945 to 1954 a bitter struggle in Vietnam ended in the partioning of Vietnam into two countries after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu. |
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| | One such political upheaval was the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975. | | | This was the first involvement of Seabees under combat conditions since the Vietnam conflict. | | | From Grande these refugees moved to the larger camps which had been built on Guam in the Marianas. |
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| | Pre-Colonial Vietnam |
| | This site pays "homage to the Cham civilization vanished in the turbulence of history." Maintained by Dang Auh Tuan, topics such as Champa's history, the Cham people, and Cham architecture are discussed. | | | This link takes one to a sample entry from the Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. | | | This online module is part of a course development project of the Associated Colleges of the South. |
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| | Vietnam War |
| | Books and Videos on the War Including Unit Histories | | | The documents and the photos in the CD–ROM can all be printed and/or exported. | | | The following events have been taken from our CD–ROM on the history of the 1960's. |
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| | One side argues it was a failure; the other side argues it was a qualified success, and that ARVN ground forces were largely able to hold their own against the NVA, so long as they had American air support. | | | The Vietnamization program never really attempted to build a viable air force for South Vietnam, and when U.S. air power was finally forced to withdraw by internal American political considerations, the ARVN was largely doomed. | | | No place in South Vietnam, not even the huge base at Cam Ranh Bay, was secure from the surprise attack by elite sappers. |
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| | Asian-Nation : Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues :: Viet Nam -- Early History & Legends |
| | Many scholars and Vietnamese consider this to be the end of historical legend and the true beginning of modern Vietnamese history. | | | Article and discussion on the historical origins of the land and nation of Viet Nam, from its early legends through the end of its imperial dynasties. | | | Further, in order to fully understand the history and consequences of the Viet Nam War, it's critical to first understand Viet Nam's history. |
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| | Vets With A Mission - History of Vietnam |
| | This site offers much reading and research on Vietnam during its war years, as well as history on its development as a nation. | | | It includes unit history of Marines, Army, Navy and Air Force units that participated in the Vietnam War. | | | A section is devoted to the Tet Offensive of 1968, one of the most misunderstood battles of the war. |
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| | VIETNAM encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, VIETNAM politics and officials, VIETNAM History. Travel to VIETNAM |
| | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is a communist country in Southeast Asia. | | | VIETNAM encyclopedia : Cultural Information, Maps, VIETNAM politics and officials, VIETNAM History. | | | Situated in eastern Indochina, it borders China, Laos, Cambodia, as well as the South China Sea. |
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| | Vietnam Vets, Vietnam War, History of Vietnam |
| | The Vietnam War is only one of the many aspects of the VWAM website. | | | Learn more about what we do in Vietnam and what motivates us as a veterans group to help the people of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. | | | This site contains a great deal of information on: the Vietnam war, Vietnam war photos, the ethnic peoples of Vietnam, current events in Vietnam, travel tips and more. |
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| | Vietnam War History Resources |
| | Vietnam War videos, DVDs, CDs & more at HistoryChannel.com | | | JUNGLE EATERS ~ ROME PLOW OPERATORS WAR DOG Memorial Page | | | Go to War and Military History Home Page |
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| | National Museum of the USAF - Vietnam War History |
| | Museum Home / History / Vietnam War / | | | National Museum of the USAF - Vietnam War History | | | There is much more information on gunships in the Museum's Attack Aircraft Virtual Aircraft Gallery |
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| | Vietnam War History Research Files |
| | North Vietnamese Weapons Used During The Vietnam War Go | | | Number Of U.S. Women Who Served In Vietnam Go | | | Permission granted to link this site to your Webpage |
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