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Viet Minh
Viet Minh , officially Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh [League for the Independence of Vietnam], a coalition of Communist and nationalist groups that opposed the French and the Japanese during World War II. The Viet Minh spearheaded Vietnamese resistance to French rule in the French Indochina War (1946... Read more
Viet Cong
Viet Cong , officially Viet Nam Cong San [Vietnamese Communists], People's Liberation Armed Forces in South Vietnam. The term was originally applied by Diem's regime to Communist troops (about 10,000) left in hideouts in South Vietnam after the Geneva Conference of 1954, following the French Indoc... Read more
Dienbienphu
Dienbienphu or Dien Bien Phu , former French military base, N Vietnam, near the Laos border. It was the scene in 1954 of the last great battle between the French and the Viet Minh forces of Ho Chi Minh in Indochina. The French occupied the base by parachute drop in Nov., 1953; this move preven... Read more
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vo Nguyen Giap , 1911-, soldier and government official of North Vietnam and later of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. A nationalist, he joined the Vietnamese Communist party in the 1930s, later joining Ho Chi Minh in China. Giap helped to organize the Viet Minh forces, fighting to oust the Ja... Read more
Pathet Lao
Pathet Lao , left-wing nationalist group that was ultimately victorious in the Laotian civil war that began in the mid-1950s. The name was first used in 1950 by Lao forces after the they joined the Viet Minh 's revolt against the French, and it became the generic term for the Lao Communists. In 195... Read more
Bao Dai
Bao Dai , 1913-97, emperor of Annam (1926-45) and chief of state of Vietnam (1949-55). Born Prince Nguyen Vinh Thuy, he was the son of Emperor Khai Din and succeeded to the throne in 1926, but did not occupy it until 1932. Bao Dai cooperated with both the Vichy French and Japanese during World War I... Read more
Robert Capa
Robert Capa , 1913-54, American war photographer, b. Hungary as Andre Friedmann. He came to Paris in 1933 and from that time on recorded with profound concern the spectacle of humanity caught in war. In 1936 he covered the Spanish civil war, taking the photograph of a Loyalist at the instant of deat... Read more
James Jones
James Jones 1921-77, American novelist, b. Robinson, Ill. Written in the tradition of naturalism , his novels often celebrate the endurance of man. From Here to Eternity (1951), his best-known work and the first of a trilogy, is a powerful story of army life in Hawaii immediately before the atta... Read more
Pham Van Dong
Pham Van Dong , 1906-2000, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam (1954-76) and of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976-87). Scion of a prominent Mandarin family, he joined the activist Communist underground in the 1920s, was imprisoned by the French for seven years, and twi... 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

Encyclopedia entries related to "Viet"

Viet Minh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Viet Minh , officially Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh [League for the Independence of Vietnam...that opposed the French and the Japanese during World War II. The Viet Minh spearheaded Vietnamese resistance to French rule in the French...
Viet Cong
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Viet Cong , officially Viet Nam Cong San [Vietnamese Communists], People's Liberation Armed...North Vietnam. Supported and later directed by North Vietnam, the Viet Cong first tried subversive tactics to overthrow the South Vietnamese...
My Lai Massacre
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...between Vietnamese nationalists called the Viet Minh and the French who controlled Vietnam. The Viet Minh sought help from Communist China in the...North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Most of the Viet Minh and their supporters relocated to North...
Vietnam War
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...World War II until 1975. The communist Viet Minh, or League for the Independence of...Chi Minh (1890 – 1969), the Viet Minh aligned themselves with the Soviets...II provided the first opportunity for a Viet Minh uprising against the French, in 1940...
Dienbienphu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...great battle between the French and the Viet Minh forces of Ho Chi Minh in Indochina...in Nov., 1953; this move prevented a Viet Minh thrust into Laos and provided support for indigenous forces opposing the Viet Minh in that area. Although the base could...
Vietnam
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...court. The new emperor had chosen the name Nam Viet for his kingdom. The word Viet he derived from the traditional name for the Vietnamese...against Chinese rule. They therefore changed it to Viet Nam. Vietnamese officials resented the change and...
Le Duc Tho
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...1945), Tho helped to organize the Viet Minh, the Communist-led resistance...the Communist Party and a leader of the Viet Minh. When France tried to retake Indochina in 1945, Tho led southern Viet Minh resistance during the Indochina War...
Pacification
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...an effort to deny the rice harvest to Viet Cong forces, and Marine Corps combined...of winning peasant sympathies from the Viet Cong, both programs foundered. Building...also failed to protect villagers from the Viet Cong. By contrast, one element of the...
Vietnam War, U.S. Air Operations in The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...x2010;manufactured aircraft in the war with the Viet Minh. After the Viet Minh victory and the partitioning of the country into...Tonkin Gulf incidents in August 1964 and a surprise Viet Cong sapper attack on the U.S. air base at Bien...
Pol Pot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...his mid-teens he joined Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh resistance for a while. He seemed...in 1953, Pol Pot first drifted into the Viet Minh "United Khmer Issarak (Freedom...Pol Pot served for several months with Viet Minh and Issarak units, some of whom had...

Dictionary entries related to "Viet"

Vietnam War
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Communist dominated Vietnamese nationalists (Viet Minh) defeated France's attempt to reestablish...MAAG), the French could not defeat the Viet Minh use of both guerrilla warfare and...and conducted a campaign to wipe out the Viet Minh organization that remained in the...
Excerpt from the Pentagon Papers (1963–1964)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...vigorously in our respective spheres. 4. Viet Cong progress has been great during the...on distorted Vietnamese reporting. The Viet Cong now control very high proportions...extended in those provinces, and the Viet Cong has been able to destroy many hamlets...
My Lai Incident
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Twentieth Infantry of the Eleventh Infantry Brigade, Twenty-third (Americal) Infantry Division, while searching for a Viet-cong force at My Lai hamlet in Son My Village, Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, massacred two hundred to five hundred...
country code
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet ...State (Holy See) VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VE Venezuela VG Virgin Islands (British) VI Virgin Islands (US) VN Viet Nam VU Vanuatu WF Wallis and Futuna Islands WS Samoa YE Yemen YT Mayotte YU Yugoslavia ZA South Africa ZM Zambia ZR Zaire ZW...
Savini, Tom
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...of violent death which he would later recreate on film. "[In Vietnam], I almost stepped on an arm once," he says. "A Viet Cong was shot by a buddy of mine and when he fell, a grenade he'd had primed under his armpit went off and just blew him to...
Jud Süss
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...German Cinema, Oxford 1987. Gethmann, Daniel, Das Narvik-Projekt: Film und Krieg, Bonn, 1998. Articles: Tegel, S., "Viet Harlan and the Origins of Jud Suess 1938–1939: Opportunism in the Creation of Nazi Anti-Semitic Film Propoganda...
Pentagon Papers
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...toward Indochina during and immediately following World War II, as well as the U.S. involvement in the Franco – Viet Minh War between 1950 and 1954, the Geneva Conference of 1954, and the origins of insurgency from 1954 to 1960. Most of the...
Folly
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...Grand, Joseph spends years writing novel; only finishes first sentence. [Fr. Lit.: The Plague ] Hamburger Hill bloody Viet Nam battle over strategically worthless objective (1969). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 631] Howard Hotel after completing...
Vietcong
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Vietcong a derogatory contraction of the term Viet Nam Cong San (”Vietnamese Communists”) used to refer to the Communist-led insurgents operating in the...
Tho, Le Duc
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...Vietnamese independence from the French) and the Communist Party (revived as the Vietnam Workers' Party). Tho was the senior Viet Minh official in southern Vietnam until 1954, and a member of the Politburo of the Vietnam Workers' Party (the Communist Party...

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Viet Nam membership negotiations (informal) 20 May 2005; Chair says Viet Nam must complete bilaterals quickly to meet ambition.
M2 Presswire; 5/23/2005; 700+ words ; ...23 May 2005-WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: Viet Nam membership negotiations (informal) 20 May 2005; Chair says Viet Nam must complete bilaterals quickly to...LTD RDATE:23052005 WTO members praised Viet Nam at an informal meeting on 20 May 2005...
Viet Kieu in stampede to buy farms, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 2/24/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...a new trend - Overseas Vietnamese, or Viet Kieu, returning to buy land and set up...HFC director Phung Huu Hat, adding that Viet Kieu have invested in all kinds of agricultural...activities. For example, Ong Thi Thanh, a Viet Kieu in Australia, invested VND1.1 billion...
ADB, Viet Nam sign three loans totaling $96.4 million for education, financial sector reforms, and poverty reduction.
M2 Presswire; 12/23/2004; 700+ words ; ...December 2004-ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: ADB, Viet Nam sign three loans totaling $96.4...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12202004 HANOI, VIET NAM - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) today signed three loans totaling...
Will Viet Kieu capital flow?, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 8/28/2000; ; 614 words ; ...Investment Review 08-28-2000 A BOOM in Viet Kieu investments could follow some key...having removed some major obstacles faced by Viet Kieu, and expats who possess certificates...permanent residence in Vietnam. To date, Viet Kieu have typically preferred to invest...
Analysis with Viet Dinh
Transcript from: Special Report with (Fox News Network); 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...weekend, former Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh, an architect of the Patriot Act was...stand up in court. Now that was news. And Viet Dinh joins me now to discuss the matter further. Welcome. VIET DINH, FMR. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL...
BAO VIET HOLDINGS MAKES DEBUT IN HANOI.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 1/25/2008; 700+ words ; HANOI, Jan 25 Asia Pulse - Viet Nam's leading insurance company announced the official...group yesterday. After 43 years of operations, the Viet Nam Insurance Corporation (Bao Viet) becomes Bao Viet Holdings, boasting more than 120...
Harnessing Viet Kieu IT nous to benefit the nation, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 8/27/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...wants to encourage the return of trained Viet Kieu or overseas Vietnamese, to provide...30 others now investing in Vietnam. "Viet Kieu could play an extremely important...t have enough highly skilled people. Viet Kieu could fill this gap," he added...
Sri Lanka - Viet Nam pledge greater bilateral investments
Newspaper article from: Colombo Times; 8/11/2009; 700+ words ; ...Technological Cooperation between Sri Lanka and Viet Nam was held in Colombo today ( 10th August...Bogollagama led the Sri Lanka delegation and the Viet Nam delegation was led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam, Dao Viet Trung. At the opening Session...
First US plane to Viet Nam in 30 years
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 12/11/2004; 700+ words ; ...commercial plane to former Saigon since the Viet Nam War ended nearly 30 years ago. United...Airport since the wartime capital of South Viet Nam fell to the communists in 1975. The...and much progress has been made in US-Viet Nam relations since American soldiers once...
WTO -- landmark of Viet Nam's 20-year renewal process.
News Wire article from: Vietnamese News Agency; 1/1/2008; 700+ words ; Ha Noi, January 1 (VNA) -- Viet Nam attained many fruitful achievements...a steady growth rate of 8.5 percent, Viet Nam saw a further drop of poor households...percent in 2006. The overall outlook for Viet Nam today is quite different with the economy...