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Map of Vietnam showing (roughly) the areas controlled by the Trịnh, Nguyễn, Mạc, and Champa around 1650. Violet: Trịnh Territory. Yellow: Nguyễn Territory.
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Vietnam, [d] [e] officially the Socialist Republic of...
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The Japanese occupied Vietnam during World War II but allowed the French to remain and exert some influence. At the war's end in August 1945, a power vacuum was created in Vietnam. Capitalizing on this, the Việt Minh launched the "August Revolution" across the country to seize government offices. Emperor Bảo Đại abdicated on August 25, 1945, ending...
Indochina War
The British commander in Southeast Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten, sent 20,000 troops of the 20th Indian division to occupy Saigon under General Douglas Gracey who landed in southern Vietnam on 6 September 1945, disarming the Japanese and restoring order. They had to re-arm Japanese prisoners of war known as Gremlin force to keep order until more troops arrived. The British began to withdraw in December 1945, but this was not completed until June of the following year. The last British soldiers...
Vietnam War (1954–75) – the South
The Geneva Conference of 1954 ended France's colonial presence in Vietnam and partitioned the country into two states at the 17th parallel pending unification on the basis of internationally supervised free elections. Ngô Đình Diệm, a former mandarin with a strong Catholic and Confucian background, was selected as Premier of the State of Vietnam by Bảo Đại. While Diệm was trying to settle the differences between the various armed militias in the South, Bảo Đại was persuaded to reduce his powe...
Vietnam War (1954–75) – the North
Between 1953 and 1956, the North Vietnamese government instituted various agrarian reforms, including "rent reduction" and "land reform", which resulted in significant political oppression. During the land reform, testimony from North Vietnamese witnesses suggested a ratio of one execution for every 160 village residents, which extrapolated nationwide would indicate nearly 100,000 executions. Because the campaign was concentrated mainly in the Red River Delta area, a lower estimate of 50,000...
In 1976, Vietnam was officially unified and renamed the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRVN), with its capital in Hà Nội. The unified regime was dominated by holdovers from the North, and the flag and anthem of North Vietnam became the flag and anthem of unified Vietnam. The Vietnamese Communist Party dropped its front name "Labor Party" and change...
During the late 1980s, Vietnam began tentative market reforms along the model then being adopted by China. The basis for these experiments were in the south which had a stronger tradition of trade and commerce. The perestroika policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachevwere also a source of motivation. Although communist governments in Eastern Euro...
Goscha, Christopher E.; de Tréglodé, Benoît, eds. (2004). Naissance d'un État-Parti: Le Viêt Nam depuis 1945 [The Birth of a Party-State: Vietnam since 1945] (in French and English). Paris: Les Ind...Elliott, David W.P. (2012). Changing Worlds: Vietnam’s Transition from Cold War to Globalization. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383348.001.0001. ISBN 9780195383348.Truong, Nhu; Vu, Tuong, eds. (2023). The Dragon’s Underbelly: Dynamics and Dilemmas in Vietnam’s Economy and Politics. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. ISBN 9789815011401.Ljunggren, Börje; Perkins, Dwight, eds. (2023). Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society, and Political Order. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674291348.People also ask
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History of Vietnam, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Vietnam. Located in the eastern portion of mainland Southeast Asia, Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, the South China Sea to the east and south, the Gulf of Thailand (Gulf of Siam) to the southwest, and Cambodia
1 day ago · Vietnam, country occupying the eastern portion of mainland Southeast Asia. It has a long coastline, much of which fronts on the South China Sea to the east and south. The country is bordered by the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest, Cambodia and Laos to the west, and China to the north.
