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Nguyen Van Thieu
Nguyen Van Thieu , 1924-2001, president of the former Republic of South Vietnam (1967-75). After World War II, he joined the Viet Minh , but then left it to join what became the South Vietnamese National Army (ARVN). He rose rapidly, becoming a division commander. In 1963, he helped lead the coup o... Read more
Nguyen Van Linh
Nguyen Van Linh , 1915-98, Vietnamese political leader, b. near Hanoi as Nguyen Van Cuc. As a young man he was active in organizing Vietnam's Communist party and was twice jailed (1931-36; 1941-45) for his political activities. In the years following Vietnam's independence (1945), Linh rose in the p... Read more
Duong Van Minh
Duong Van Minh , 1916-2001, Vietnamese army officer and political leader. A military adviser (1962-63) to President Diem , he helped to overthrow Diem in 1963. He was head of government (1963-64), after which he went into exile. Minh returned in 1968, serving as an opposition leader against Preside... Read more
Vietnam War
Vietnam War conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. The war began soon after the Geneva Conference provisionally divided (1954) Vietnam at 17° N lat. into the Democratic Rep... Read more
Vietnam
Vietnam , officially Socialist Republic of Vietnam, republic (2005 est. pop. 83,536,000), 128,400 sq mi (332,642 sq km), Southeast Asia. Occupying the eastern coastline of the Southeast Asian peninsula, Vietnam is bounded by China on the north, by Laos and Cambodia on the west, and by the Gulf of To... Read more

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Nguyen Van Thieu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Nguyen Van Thieu Nguyen Van Thieu (born 1923) became president of South Vietnam following the 1967 election in his war-torn country. He led the Saigon government against the Communist enemy during the height of the U.S. escalation of the...
Nguyen Cao Ky
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Nguyen Cao Ky , 1930-, premier (1965-67) and vice president...the air force command. Following a military coup led by Nguyen Van Thieu in 1965, Ky became premier, and was Thieu's vice-presidential running mate in the 1967 election...
Vietnam War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...military coup engineered by Duong Van Minh ; Diem was executed. No one...Vietnam until June, 1965, when Nguyen Cao Ky became premier, but U.S...Vietnam after the election (1967) of Nguyen Van Thieu as president, the United States...
Paris Peace Agreement
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...Kissinger failed to convince South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu to accept the text or Hanoi's timetable. On 26 October...although on separate pages in order to accommodate Nguyen Van Thieu's refusal to recognize the political status of Hanoi...
Bunker, Ellsworth
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...civil and military programs there. He helped arrange a compromise between South Vietnamese political rivals Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky. Bunker also played a key role in helping mobilize South Vietnam's post– Tet Offensive...
Tet Offensive
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...enough to attempt, what the evidence indicated they were planning. With General Westmoreland and Saigon's President Nguyen Van Thieu convinced that Khe Sanh was the Communists' primary target, Communist forces had begun attacking outposts around...
Case‐Church Amendment
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...The proponents of the ban did not know that Nixon had, in fact, secretly promised South Vietnam's president Nguyen Van Thieu that the United States would resume bombing in North and South Vietnam if he determined it necessary to enforce the...

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Nixon's Letter to Nguyen Van Thieu (17 December 1972)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History NIXON'S LETTER TO NGUYEN VAN THIEU (17 December 1972) As part of his plan to extricate...Nixon convinced intransigent South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu that America would provide his government with massive...
Nguyen Van Thieu
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Nguyen Van Thieu (1923–2001) president of...South Vietnam) (1967–75). Thieu played a significant part in the 1963 coup...States supported his authoritarian regime. Thieu, who had participated only reluctantly...
Nguyen Van Linh
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Vietnamese Communist Party 1986–92 Born Nguyen Van Cuc in Hanoi, he soon became active against the French...against the US-backed governments of Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Van Thieu . After the end of the Vietnam War he became head of...
The Fall of Saigon (April, 1975, by Stephen Klinkhammer)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Communist North. Led by President Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam had come to rely...Southeast Asia. With that support gone, Thieu's government was forced to abandon...crisis brought on by the war and Thieu's growing unpopularity. When the...
Saigon, fall of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...of the Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu , continued fighting the Vietcong...naval base, on 29 March. Though Nguyen Van Thieu still had over a million men...s Army moved into Saigon, Nguyen Van Thieu resigned on 20 April. By 28...
Paris Peace Accords
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...to be held in South Vietnam, in order to end the rivalry between the official government of Nguyen Van Thieu , and the Communist PRG. Nguyen Van Thieu rejected the treaty, however, and with US assistance continued to defy the Vietcong and North...
Vietnam War
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...000 in 1963. North Vietnamese strategists led by Vo Nguyen Giap mistakenly assumed that growing attacks against...assist the government of Ngo Dinh Diem up to 1963, and of Nguyen Van Thieu thereafter, and by 1964 the latter's government controlled...
Case-Church Amendment
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...of bombing in Cambodia until August 15. President Richard M. Nixon secretly promised South Vietnam's president Nguyen Van Thieu that the United States would resume bombing in North and South Vietnam if he determined it necessary.
Darlac
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...government, when Vietcong forces attacked the capital again and succeeded in capturing it. This convinced President Nguyen Van Thieu that the highlands could no longer be held and triggered a military and civilian withdrawal from the area, which...

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Nguyen Van Thieu
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/2/2001; ; 700+ words ; Nguyen Van Thieu, former president of South Vietnam Born: 5 April, 1923, in Ninh Thuan, Vietnam Died: 29 September, 2001, in Boston, aged 78 NGUYEN Van Thieu, who led his nation in the war that tore apart Vietnam and bitterly...
Nguyen Van Thieu.(war leader, South Vietnam)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 10/6/2001; 700+ words ; Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam's war leader, died...Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital. Nguyen Van Thieu, who had led the South for a decade...military expert Charles Timmes and Nguyen Van Thieu. As they passed the checkpoint, Thieu...
NGUYEN VAN THIEU, 78, SOUTH VIETNAM LEADER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Nguyen Van Thieu, the staunchly anticommunist president...spokesman. "It's sad news," said Binh Nguyen, vice president of the Vietnamese Community...Once a controversial figure, Mr. Thieu spent his last years as a recluse who rarely...
Former president of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu, dead at 78
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who led his nation in the war...ceremonial post of chief of state, Thieu was elected president in September...with his rival, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky, who had previously wielded...
Obituary: Nguyen Van Thieu
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/2/2001; ; 700+ words ; THE DEATH of Nguyen Van Thieu, the former President of South Vietnam, is likely to provoke...North. There was therefore a sense of relief when General Thieu and Air Vice- Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky seized power in 1965 with a promise to pursue the...
Interview: Stanley Karnow discusses the life of former South Vietnamese leader Nguyen Van Thieu, who died last night at the age of 78
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 9/30/2001; ; 658 words ; ...former South Vietnamese leader Nguyen Van Thieu, who died last night at the...sitting in for Lisa Simeone. Nguyen Van Thieu, the man who led South Vietnam...about the death last night of Nguyen Van Thieu in Boston. He was 78.
Nguyen Van Thieu Dies; South Vietnam's Leader; President Failed to Stop Communists
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Nguyen Van Thieu, 78, the soldier and politician who as...of death was not disclosed. President Thieu, who fled South Vietnam after resigning...promised in the 1954 Geneva agreements. Gen. Thieu, who in his youth flirted with communist...
Former president of South Vietnam dies, aged 78; NGUYEN VAN THIEU.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/1/2001; 490 words ; ...FORMER South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who led his nation in the war...ceremonial post of chief of state, Thieu was elected president in September...with his rival, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky, who had previously wielded...
Tapes reveal Nixon's tough talk about Thieu.(NEWS)(Richard Nixon on peace treaties with Nguyen Van Thieu)
Magazine article from: Vietnam; 10/1/2009; 700+ words ; ...and pledged to withdraw American forces only when South Vietnam could defend itself, but he worded that President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam would reject the settlement offered by the North. In his January 20 conversation with Kissinger...
Former South Vietnam President Thieu dies
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who led his nation in the war...ceremonial post of chief of state, Thieu was elected president in September...with his rival, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky, who had previously wielded...