The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
1) Vietnam was invaded and occupied by the Japanese during world war 2. Before Japan took over it was under French admiration since the early 19th century. Inspired by china and Russian communism, Ho Chi Minh shaped the league for the independence of Vietnam, or Viet Minh, to fight the ...
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In Hanoi, communist leaders, believing that victory was near, decided to make a major military commitment to winning the South. Troops and then entire units of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) were sent south through Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which was by that time becoming a netw...
In September, 1940, the Japanese army invaded Indochina. With Paris already occupied by Germany, the French troops decided it was not worth putting up a fight and they surrendered to the Japanese. Ho Chi Minh and his fellow nationalists saw this as an opportunity to free their country from...
Prof Lê Hải Bình is paying a working trip to India from November 21-26. The delegation started the agenda by laying a wreath at the statue of President Hồ Chí Minh in New Delhi. They later visited the headquarters of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party ...
"I'm very disappointed with the trial and strongly protest it," Dai's wife, Vu Minh Khanh, said. "He is innocent and he pleaded innocent at the trial. He will continue to fight and will appeal the verdict". Despite sweeping reforms to its economy and showing openness to social...
During WWII, the Japanese government took control of much of the area and set up a puppet regime that was eventually forced out by the Vietnamese at the end of that war in 1945. After WWII and until 1955, France fought hard to regain their former territories in the region, but with a...
War was finally settled by the Geneva Accords of 1954, which temporarily divided country section in parallel with the 17 with Minh Nam in control in the north and the non-communist state to be formed in the South under the leadership of Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem. This division was to ...
The government of the DRV—the Council of Ministers—is formed by the National Assembly on the basis of candidates presented by the president. The bodies of state authority in all territorial administrative units are the people’s councils, which are elected for three-year terms in the provinces...