• happened during 1955 in South Vietnam. February 12 - United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam. October 26...
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    Chi Minh City in 1976), before becoming a republic in 1955. South Vietnam was bordered by North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) to the north...
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    Đại in 1955—became president of the Republic of Vietnam. Since the August Revolution, the Việt Minh had seized all of the territories of Vietnam. The...
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    The 1955 State of Vietnam referendum determined the future form of government of the State of Vietnam, the nation that was to become the Republic of Vietnam...
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    of leaders of South Vietnam, since the establishment of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina in 1946, and the division of Vietnam in 1954 until the...
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    from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. At the ARVN's peak, an estimated 1 in 9 citizens of South Vietnam were enlisted, composed...
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    Republic of Vietnam. The DRV became the government of North Vietnam in 1954 following the Geneva Accords. The flag was modified on 30 November 1955 to make...
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    The flag of South Vietnam was first introduced by the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam in 1948, later served as the national flag of the State...
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    In 1955, the Prime Minister of South Vietnam Ngô Đình Diệm faced a severe challenge to his rule over South Vietnam from the Bình Xuyên criminal gang and...
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    The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina...
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    (South Vietnam). The DRV emerged victorious over South Vietnam in 1975 and ceased to exist the following year when it unified with the south to become...
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    School in Chợ Lớn. By the time Collins had arrived back in South Vietnam on May 2, the battle was almost won. The Bình Xuyên forces were broken and in retreat...
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    Laos, and Cambodia. The war lasted from 1955 to 1975 and most of the fighting took place in South Vietnam; accordingly it suffered the most casualties...
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    The South Vietnam Air Force, officially the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF; Vietnamese: Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa, KLVNCH; French: Force aérienne...
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    modified to make the anthem of State of Vietnam from 1948 to 1955 and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1975, with the name Tiếng Gọi Công...
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  • was the President of South Vietnam from 1955 until his assassination in 1963. Dương Văn Minh led the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) under President...
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    Republic of Vietnam and were responsible for the defence of the state and the republican regime since its independence from France on 26 October 1955 to its...
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    was the currency of South Vietnam from 1953 to 2 May 1978. It was subdivided into 100 xu, also written su. In 1953, the Vietnam branch of the Institut...
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    Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) as an armed underground government opposing the government of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) under President...
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    united front organization in South Vietnam. Formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and nominally conducted military...
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    Ngo Dinh Diem (category Heads of state of South Vietnam)
    a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam (Republic...
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  • happened during 1955 in North Vietnam. November 1 - The Vietnam War begins between the South Vietnam Army and the North Vietnam Army in which the latter...
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  • development: South Vietnam 1955–1975 (PDF). Cambridge University Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-521-30327-9. "How Much Did The Vietnam War Cost?". The Vietnam War....
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    representing South Vietnam. It also represented the State of Vietnam prior to 1955, and the Republic of South Vietnam in 1975. South Vietnam joined the...
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    abroad. South Vietnam set up its own network in Saigon in 1955 from the roots of the ex-State of Vietnam's station, named Radio Vietnam. Meanwhile, in 1962...
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    parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 22 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially...
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    Vietnam. He abdicated in August 1945 when Japan surrendered. From 1949 to 1955, Bảo Đại was the chief of state of the non-communist State of Vietnam....
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    the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975. It was one of four corps in the ARVN, and...
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  • topical guide to the Vietnam War: Vietnam War – Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon...
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    Vietnam. The National Assembly of the Republic of Vietnam had two distinct periods under the two Republics 1955–1963 and 1967–1975. Between the two Republics...
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