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Revolutionary terror, also referred to as revolutionary terrorism or reign of terror, [1] refers to the institutionalized application of force to counter ...
The August Revolution (Vietnamese: Cách-mạng tháng Tám), also known as the August General Uprising (Vietnamese: Tổng khởi-nghĩa giành chính-quyền tháng Tám, lit. 'the Total uprising to seize power in August'), was a revolution caused by the Việt Minh against the Empire of Vietnam from 16 August to
The Commune of Paris and the revolutionary committees in the sections had to obey the law, the two Committees, and the Convention. [57] Desmoulins argued that the Revolution should return to its original ideas en vogue around 10 August 1792. [58] A Committee of Grace had to be established. On 8 December, Madame du Barry was guillotined.
Võ Thị Thắng (10 December 1945 – 22 August 2014) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and stateswoman. She was a member of the Long An delegation to the National Assembly of Vietnam during its fourth, fifth, and sixth sessions (1975 to 1981).
Original unissued patch. The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was designed and initially coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving the American, South Vietnamese militaries, and a small amount of special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam.
Lê Đức Thọ became active in Vietnamese nationalism as a teenager and spent much of his adolescence in French colonial prisons, an experience that hardened him. Thọ's nickname was "the Hammer" on account of his severity. [4]
The Great Viet Populist Revolutionary Party (Vietnamese: Đại-việt Duy-dân Cách-mệnh Đảng, Việt Duy-dân Đảng) was a nationalist and anti-communist political party and militant organisation that was active in what is now Vietnam from 1943 to 1947.
The Viet Cong [nb 1] (VC) was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.It was formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, [nb 2] and conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV).