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The Viet Cong was an umbrella term for the armed and political wing of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, a communist organization led by North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong fought against the South Vietnamese and U.S. governments, and was later merged into the Fatherland Front of Vietnam.
The Hoa people are the citizens and nationals of Vietnam of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry. They have a long history of migration, cultural influence, and economic role in Vietnam, and face persecution and discrimination under the Communist regime.
Ngo Dinh Diem was the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963, when he was killed by a coup backed by the CIA. He was a Catholic mandarin who opposed French colonialism and communism, but faced internal conflicts and external pressures.
Learn about the 1968 battle between US/South Vietnamese forces and Vietcong/North Vietnamese forces at Bien Hoa Air Base and Long Binh Post, part of the Tet offensive in the Vietnam War. See the background, the battle, the aftermath and the casualties of this major conflict.
The August Revolution was a revolution launched by the Việt Minh, a communist group led by Hồ Chí Minh, against the Empire of Vietnam and the Empire of Japan in 1945. It resulted in the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the abolition of the Vietnamese monarchy.
The song was written in 1961 by Lưu Hữu Phước (1921–1989) and adopted at that time as the anthem of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Viet Cong). In 1966, Lưu Hữu Phước wrote a military song March on Saigon [ vi ] ( Tiến về Sài Gòn ) as an encouragement the soldiers going to attack Saigon in the Tet Offensive .
The Tet Offensive was a surprise attack by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army on South Vietnamese and American forces in 1968. It was a military defeat for the communists, but a political victory for them, as it undermined public support for the war in the US and led to negotiations.
On the night of November 22, 1963, an estimated 500 Viet Cong (VC) fighters overran the Hiệp Hòa Special Forces Camp, resulting in four American personnel missing. South Vietnamese commando units and the American Special Forces resisted heavily using machine guns but were overwhelmed by the arrival of a People's Army of Vietnam mortar unit.