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...
which competed with each other to demonstrate support forHo Chi Minh’s“heroic” war against U.S.imperialism. The Soviets provided an estimated 1.8 billion rubles in military and economic aid and sent 3,000 military advisers and technicians along with sophisticated weapons to the North. China sp...
When the Japanese invaded during World War II, the Viet Minh opposed them with support from the US, the Soviet Union and China. They received some Japanese arms when Japan surrendered. The Viet Minh, a Communist-led common front under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, then initiated an insurge...
The capital is Hanoi and the largest city is Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. Land and People The northern and western sections of Vietnam are dominated by the mountains of the Annamese Cordillera, continuations of the mountains of the Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi to the north....
DuringWorld War II, Japanese forces invaded Vietnam. To fight off both Japanese occupiers and the French colonial administration, political leaderHo Chi Minh—inspired by Chinese and Sovietcommunism—formed the Viet Minh, or the League for the Independence of Vietnam. ...
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...
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On 27 Aug the USS New Orleans (LPH-11) offloaded 18 CH-53As from HMH-361 to join MAG-36 at Phu Bai. North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh died on 3 Sep. Operation Durham Peak brought many aircrews back into the Que Son Mountains and the Que Son valley, which was first entered...
After the defeat of Japan in the World War II and the withdrawal of the Japanese troops from Indochina, the ‘ Democratic Republic of Vietnam’ was established in Hanoi, 2nd September 1945. The President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, founder and leader of the communis...
When the Vietnamesesovereignsbegan the active persecution of Christian missionaries,Franceinvaded southern Vietnam and by 1862 had captured Saigon (nowHo Chi MinhCity),Bien Hoa, andVinh Long. In theTreaty of Saigon, Phan Thanh Gian ceded Gia Dinh and Dinh Thong (present-day My Tho), in the...