On November 11, 1960, a failed coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was led by Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông and Colonel Nguyễn...

1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt 1961 Salvadoran coup d'état: On 25 January, the Civic-Military Directory overthrew the Junta of Government. Coup of...

Lâm Văn Phát and Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo launched a coup against General Nguyễn Khánh, the head of South Vietnam's ruling military junta. Their aim was to...

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of the Buddhist crisis and the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong threat to South Vietnam. In South Vietnam, the coup was referred to as Cách mạng 1-11-63...

Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam, while the US assumed financial and military support for South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese controlled Viet Cong...

Several million Vietnamese women served in the military and in militias during the War, particularly in the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (also...

This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government...

the wake of political instability following it. During the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt 60 members of the Guard defended the Independence Palace when...

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, French: République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast...

talks Nguyen Ngoc, Viet Minh, military journalist, and political officer in the North Vietnamese Army Dong Si Nguyen, North Vietnamese Army commander charged...

more opportunities for advancement. Khánh participated in the 1963 South Vietnamese coup that deposed Diệm, playing a minor role, although he claimed to...

Republic of Vietnam colonel, staged the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt Vương Hữu Nhơn (born 1932), Vietnamese economist, The First General of State...

1963 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état January 30, 1964 January 1964 South Vietnamese coup December 19, 1964 December 1964 South Vietnamese coup February...

the South Vietnamese position collapsed in 1975 was surprising to most American and South Vietnamese observers, and probably to the North Vietnamese and...

major Viet Cong supply centers, conducted by South Vietnamese units and US military advisers. Category 3 – Limited air strikes on North Vietnamese targets...

thanh Sài Gòn broadcasting in Vietnamese.: 355–6  During the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt on 11 November rebel forces captured Radio Saigon and broadcast...

campaign against the state. North Vietnam supported the Viet Cong, which began fighting the South Vietnamese army. President John F. Kennedy, who subscribed to...

the 1960s, he was involved in several coups. He helped President Ngô Đình Diệm put down a November 1960 coup attempt and was rewarded with a promotion. In...

informally by Vietnamese settlers fleeing the Trịnh–Nguyễn War to the north. In time, control of the city and the area passed to the Vietnamese, who gave...

several coup attempts, making him a key player in South Vietnamese military politics. In September 1964, he and Kỳ helped rescue Khánh from a coup attempt by...

Nguyễn Văn Lực, a leader of the VNQDD (Vietnamese: Vietnamese Nationalist Party), which opposed the Diệm regime. In 1960, Diệm had jailed Lực for one month...

Japanese. An attempt to disarm a Vietnamese garrison ended badly for the Japanese when 600 of them marched into Quảng Ngãi. The Vietnamese nationalists...

amphibious operations close to North Vietnamese territorial waters, which triggered a response from North Vietnamese forces. The United States government...

before the coup—Thanh informed Nol "of material aid, in the form of the Khmer Special Forces troops still on the US and South Vietnamese payrolls." Similarly...

unenforceable due to the South Vietnamese army's inability to control farmland territories against the Viet Cong. In the 1970s, South Vietnam implemented the...

In 1960, the oft-expressed optimism of the United States and the Government of South Vietnam that the Viet Cong (VC) were nearly defeated proved mistaken...

involvement in the Vietnam War as well as the expulsion from the U.S. of the South Vietnamese hijacker, a recent graduate of a U.S. university. The hijacking ended...

president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 South Vietnamese coup. Diệm was...

material support to South Vietnam since its foundation in 1954. The Vietnam War effectively began with the start of the North Vietnamese backed VC insurgency...